by Sevanti Ninan
Penguin Books India, New Delhi
Since the satellites began bearing down on the Subcontinent, television has displaced many household activities, 'notably sleeping', says the author of a book on India and the tube.
Sevanti Ninan, a Delhi-based journalist following the electronic media since 1986, relies on market research done for Doordarshan, India´s state broadcaster, and studies by departments of mass communications in several universities, to produce a useful and up-to-date dissertation on India´s recent transformation into a television society.