To work around the regulatory constraint, Zee had to rent a transponder from Star TV in Hong Kong at US $ 5 million a year. Zee TV, the first private television channel in India, was conceived even as regulation did not permit private sector broadcasting and Doordarshan enjoyed a monopoly. This is what made me pick up a copy of Dr Subhash Chandra’s autobiography.ĭr Chandra is best placed to describe the struggles of doing business in India as many of the businesses he started were ahead of their time. I have always been curious how much effort and vision could have gone into bringing these experiences to people of the country that did not have the reputation of being the most business-friendly destination well into late 1980s. Watching cable television for the first time, having a landline telephone at home, watching a movie in a multiplex, visit to an amusement park, dial-up internet and the list goes on. Most of us born in the India of late 1980s or early 1990s have experienced many firsts in our lives which our parents did not have the luxury of.
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