An Uninformed Democracy

An Uninformed Democracy?
Romesh Thapar THOSE who rely on Akashvani and Door- darshan for their daily diet of 'news', and even those trapped by the tiny type-set of our expensive, badly printed newspapers, should make it a point to read "Amritsar, Mrs Gandhi's Last Battle" a reportage of the Punjab events by Mark Tully and Satish Jacob of the BBC. Quite clearly, if this was the material made available to BBC listeners, they were better informed than the general public in India.