So why do we need a BBC Hindi Service after such a media explosion in India? It appears the British policymakers had the same question before deciding to sever ties with a listening population of 30 million.Įven now, BBC clearly says that if sustainable commercial funding can’t be found, then it’ll have to be closed by March 2012. This is why BBC World Service is not present in countries with a flourishing media of their own. Its operations are funded by the foreign office and not by any licence fee or a revenue stream. The BBC World Service, unlike the local BBC, has become a kind of British Benefits Corp., where talent is systematically downgraded to suit the British habit of appeasement in news output, and to foster nepotism.”īBC World service has been an effective tool of British foreign policy. Tufail Ahmed, my former colleague from BBC Urdu Service, said this bluntly on Facebook, “The BBC World Service has generally lost relevance internationally, more so in successful democracies like India and elsewhere. That explains why thousands of handwritten letters land at Bush House in London every month.īut this temporary reprieve may not be enough to sustain BBC Hindi in the long term. For decades, BBC Hindi has been their lifeline, not only for news and current affairs but as a credible source of analysis and world knowledge. The closure announcement had shocked millions of radio listeners across India. Now, BBC has agreed to keep alive a one-hour daily transmission for a year as it explores commercial funding for the service. When BBC said it will close down its Hindi service due to paucity of funds, it led to such an outcry among its fans in India that the broadcaster was forced to retract its decision. This live connect with the audience would play out in a very different way two decades later. Perplexed and disoriented, he asked aloud, “Ye train kahan khadi hai? (Where has this train stopped?)” Instead of an answer, he got a question from a fellow passenger: “Kya aap Onkarnath Srivastav hain? Jo BBC par khabarein padhte hain? (Are you Onkarnath Srivastav? The one who reads the news on BBC?)” Srivastav was one of the stalwarts of BBC Hindi Service in the 1990s and the incident was a reaffirmation of the Awaz-hi-pehchaan-hai belief of BBC Hindi Service staffers. The BBC will keep your information secure and not share it with anyone else in accordance with the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy.Somewhere in Uttar Pradesh, not so long ago, an old train passenger woke up at midnight to find the train standing in the middle of nowhere. No other personal data relating to you (such as a username or email address) is processed. You can choose to unsubscribe from push notifications from BBC News in your device’s ‘Notifications’ screen. If you choose to receive push notifications, a unique identifier relating to your device will be stored by Airship on behalf of the BBC to provide you with the service. Go deeper into a storyline with suggestions for further reading and viewing and a range of topics related to each story Articles in the app will respect the font size in your device settings so you can increase or decrease the story text size as suits your preference Share stories to your social networks, or email/SMS to a friend
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