Cancel the call please
It was too good to last. After over a month of discussions and hearing out various arguments, the supposedly independent regulatory authority for the telecom sector, the TRAI, came up with a notification aimed at correcting the distortions in the country's telecom sector.

Discordant notes
Harmony, so essential to music, seems to elude the Indian music scene. The exchange of words between classical vocalist Pandit Jasraj and sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar, although conducted through the relatively depersonalised medium of the Press, was a jugalbandi that the country could well have done without.

AIR, past and present
Listeners of Akashvani's Assamese news on Tuesday morning had a harrowing time as they fiddled with the tuning knob to catch the broadcasting station.