World Television Day: The Lost Story From Kheda That Nurtured India’s TV Revolution

September 15, 1959, saw the advent of Television in India. Initially, only programmed topics such as human rights, civic duty, traffic sense and community health were broadcast twice a week for an hour. In the following two decades, television stations were opened in Bombay, Amritsar, Madras, and Calcutta but remained a distant dream for the rural India.