The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in English, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it used to published by All India Radio, New Delhi. From 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later, The Indian listener became "Akashvani" (English ) w.e.f. January 5, 1958. It was made fortnightly journal again w.e.f July 1,1983.
NAME OF THE JOURNAL: AKASHVANI
LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English
DATE, MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 28 JANUARY, 1973
PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly
NUMBER OF PAGES: 60
VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XXXVIII, No. 5
BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED (PAGE NOS): 25-58
ARTICLE:
1.The Pleasures of Reading
2. Talking About Books
3. Tagore's Gora--A Critical Appreciation
4.Processing of Books In Libraries
5. Building Up the Library Collections
6.The New Role of Libraries
7. The Newspaper and Public Opinion Moulding
8. Survey of German Indology
9. Distributing Paperbacks in India
AUTHOR:
1. R. Kuppu Rao
2. B. R.Nanda
3. K. R.Vasudevan
4. K. A. Isaac
5. P. Ramanujan Nair
6. K. C. John
7. Somdeb Das Gupta
8. Dr. Herbert Herring
9. G. L. Mirchandani
KEYWORDS :
1.Reading Makes Happy,Types of Book, Keeping Company with Great Minds Books our Sincere Friends
2.The Liberals-All Leaders no Followers,An Outstanding Liberal,Man OF Cosmopolitan Outlook
4.Classification,Schemes of Classification, Catalogue
5. Books Selection
6. Referring Service, Documentation Service.
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