EDITORIAL BOARD CONTENTS EXECUTIVE EDITORS Geeta Kapur GENDER, MEDIA AND Kumkum Sangari THE RHETORICS OF LIBERALIZATION Indira Chandrasekhar Madan Gopal Singh Guest Editor: Tejaswini Niranjana Ashish Rajadhyaksha MANAGERIAL EDITORS 3 Introduction Vivan Sundaram Tejaswini Niranjana Rajendra Prasad Romi Khosia 9 Fans, Families and Censorship: ADVISORY EDITORS The Alluda Majaka Controversy G.P. Deshpande S.V. Srinivas Kalpana Sahni Asad Zaidi 35 Love in the Time of Liberalization: Anuradha Kapur Anil Bhatti Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak Chanchal Chauhan Ajanta Sircar Sashi Kumar 61 The Story of the 'Up-Markef Reader: Femina's CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 'New Woman' and the Normative Feminist Subject Malini Bhattacharya Neela Bhagwat K. Srilata Saeed Akhtar Mirza Mihir Bhattacharya 73 Anti-Arrack Movement, Prohibition and After: M.S. Sathyu Eenadu's Strategic Support and Silence Sudhir Patwardhan Uma Maheswari P. Govinda Pillai M.S. Prabhakara Arun Khophkar 87 Imagining an Audience: Doordarshan and Women's Programming SUBSCRIPTION RATES In India Jayasree Kalathil Individuals (4 issues): Rs 160 95 Studying Television Audiences: Problems and Institutions (4 issues): Rs 350 Outside India Possibilities Individuals (4 issues): $ 35 Vinod Pavarala Institutions (4 issues): $ 60 107 The Possible Histories of Indian Television WRITE TO Satish Poduval Indira Chandrasekhar Journal of Arts & Ideas 119 Television and the National Culture 35A/1 (third floor) Shahpur Jat M Madhava Prasad New Delhi 110 049 Telefax: 649 7999 131 The Judgement: Re-Forming the 'Public' Tel: 649 1448 Ashish Rajadhyaksha PUBLISHED BY Tulika Print Communication Cover design: Vivan Sundaram Services for G.P. Deshpande PRINTED AT Pauls Press E 44/11 Okhia Phase II New Delhi 110 020 ^ARTS^DEASNUMBERS 32-33 April 1999