We thought it would be a great idea to embed ads in the shows to earn our revenues. And that at one point during the day, at 6 or 7 p.m., we would show the same entertainment show on all 600 screens for the local viewers. I thought I would place one video van in each district across the country. They came back in a few hours and said about 600. I asked my team how many districts there were in the country. The parties would take them to different constituencies and play their campaign films. He would rent them out to political parties for their election campaign. He had built about eight to ten vans that had a video projector and screen. A BJP member, he called his company Jain TV, though he had no TV channel then. I was looking for a way to meet the entertainment needs of people. Karnataka results: BJP rules in Delhi but wins very few states (and is absent in South India)Īll of these ideas bothered me for many weeks (even today Essel World is not the destination I would like it to be).‘For the BJP Kerala has become an ego issue’: Author and activist Arundhati Roy.‘The Living Air’: A birder’s long tryst with birds show how they help overcome human fallibilities.Advice on tax dodging and bribery from an 18th-century East India Company merchant.‘Pakistan’s erasure of the 1971 Liberation War from conversations is dangerous’: Author Aamina Ahmad.

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