Word: calcutta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of these handicaps, in 1926 two private companies set up transmitters, began broadcasting from Bombay and Calcutta. They might as well have broadcast into a dead mike. The two companies had a known audience of only 3,000 licensed radiowners. The Government of India stepped in, in 1930 bought the two stations, established All-India Radio (AIR). Two years later BBC began broadcasting its Empire programs to India and in 1935 sent smart Lionel Fielden out to make India more radio-minded...
...revered and respected has Mohandas K. Gandhi been that he has never felt the need of a bodyguard as he travels about India. Recently however, demonstrators in a Calcutta suburb booed at the wizened little old man. One even dared to throw a shoe which barely missed the Mahatma, hit his private secretary. This is India's worst insult. Later, the Mahatma was greeted at a station by a group carrying black flags-another Indian symbol of rebuke...