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23. Brochure entitled "ZEE Network : A Success story'.
24. Kevin Robins and Frank Webster, ibid.
25. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn, (London : Fontana, 1973), p.257.
26. Susan Buck-Morss, "Walter Benjamin - Revolutionary Writer (I)", New Left Review 128 (1981).
27. The quotations on Kheda TV in this section are all, unless mentioned otherwise, from the special issue US on 'The Other TV', Seminar 232 (December 1978).
28. Extract from the Kheda Credo, qtd. in Kiran Karnik, "A System Approach", ibid., p.20.
29. Sushma Kapur and Anuradha, Women and Media in Development, New Delhi: Cendit (1986), pp.20-21.
30. Hayden White writes "....the study and writing of history must be considered...less as a scientific discipline than as a 'discourse' in which history's possible objects of study are identified, various methods or procedures for studying them are debated, and a proper manner of speaking about such objects is contrived." See his foreword to Jacques Ranciere's The Names of History : On the Poetics of Knowledge, trans. Hassan Meleny, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (1994), p.viii.
31. Vivek Dhareshwar, 'Our Time', op. cit.
32. Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, Women Writing in India, Volume II: The 20th century. New York: The Feminist Press (1993), p.104.
33. Susie Tharu and K.Lalita, ibid., p.110.
34. Shanti George, A Matter of People : Cooperative Dairying in India and Zimbabwe, New Delhi: Oxford University Press (1994), p.153.
35. William F. Akin, Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocrat Movement, 1900-1941, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press (1977), p. 170.
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