Introduction love in the time of liberalisation looks at how Bombay cinema's love-story genre negotiates the caste-class and gender contradictions of our historical moment. K.Srilata examines the uneasy relationship between the "new woman" imaged by the English-language women's magazines and the normative subject-positions of Indian feminism. Uma Maheswari analyses 8 the emergence of a powerful regional-language media empire in Andhra Pradesh and its involvement in the 1992 antr-arrack movement. Satish Poduval retraces the history of Indian television and argues for a fresh contemporary engagement with past agendas. Jayasree Kalathil studies Doordarshan's framing of an audience for its "women's programmes", indicating the difficulties of positing a priori the nature of this audience. Vinod Pavarala gives an overview of the current state of television audience research, and calls for a much-needed study of the political economy of television in India. Madhava Prasad's article attempts to map the distinct qualities of our national televisual culture and to suggest agendas for Indian television studies. Ashish Rajadhyaksha writes about the 1995 Supreme Court judgement that led to the Broadcast Bill, speculating on the new categories of "public" that it puts in place. TEJASWINI NIRANJANA Journal of Arts & Ideas