Television Programming
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Darpana Communications specializes in using innovative television to talk of issues of development – the environment, women, human rights, corruption, corporate responsibility, governance and much else. With a young and energetic team of professionals it uses all kinds of formats and genres to make programmes that often bend or stretch the boundaries of infotainment, sometimes creating music that talks of gender parity, which becomes popular bridal music!
Aapni Bapor For Women’s Empowerment
This three year project for Ford Foundation is telecast on Doordarshan, Gujarati and has been on October 2002. Over 350 hours of programming in all genres of television - fiction and non-fiction, music videos, interviews, quizzes, chat shows; on many aspects of women’s issues including legal rights, health, career counseling, nutrition, social taboos and much more.
Vaividhyotsav (Celebrating Diversity & Communal Harmony)
This project was undertaken by Darpana Communications, with the help of the Royal Netherlands Embassy, in order to bring in notions of tolerance and peace through the media of television. The programmes are telecast on DD-11, the Gujarati version of the national channel, Doordarshan. The language is usually Gujarati.
