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World Wide Waves '22: The sounds of community radio

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Radio in India - A Woman's Dream

General's dream was to go to college and work for a private company. But the founder of d d s persuaded her that radio was the best way to share valuable local knowledge in an area where female literacy is less than ten per cent. Here she is at 17 in 19 98, perched on sangam's new transmission tower in a d d s film about the struggle to get a license. You eate peta toer tonime maren la nunde, redigu damoma parmission lebo for over six years. She says, we're ready for transmission. We hear that people in deli or foreigners get permission to start their radios. General brought all her famous

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