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Article: When Michael Jackson came to Manikganj (Special)
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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By Nupur BasuIn the year 2000 I was directing a documentary on the impact of satellite television in South Asia. The skies had opened up with the 'dish' technology over this region and, in turn, it had opened the floodgates for a new cultural universe.
Travelling across the region from the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) in Peshawar where Islamic groups had given a call to ban satellite television to the hills of Nepal where the government was fighting hard to have it's own Nepalese channel so that Nepali children did not say that Rajiv Gandhi was their prime minister - the stories and reactions we were filming were truly revealing.
As in all documentary filmmaking, there were several ...