Radio to the rescue

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A country without a name, its borders, unknown, and its citizens ‘lost’, Lost City Radio has Norma, the chief character, playing host to a late night radio show – ‘Lost City Radio’ – a program striving to unite people missing in war with their kin. The insurgency of over a decade, between the government and IL (Illegitimate Legion), an imagined separatist faction (read leftist), has subsided but the clouds remain dark and cast evil tones. It’s amidst these black overtones that in Norma’s radio gig emerges a silver streak. Through her program on the only radio station in existence, she reads out names every Sunday night of people lost or displaced, tortured or dead. Hers is the most familiar diction in this hapless nation, where ten long years have failed to diminish shivers of trauma from post-war syndrome. Nonetheless, a glimmer of hope endures, rendering the radio a messiah of deliverance. Beneath this noble quest however, lies another, rather personal mission. Because for Norma, now in her early forties, hosting ‘Lost City Radio’ means an extended expedition to look for Rey, her lost botanist husband with a penchant for intimacy with the banned IL rebels, whose disappearance about a decade ago serves as a compelling reason for her transmissions on the show.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Rashmi Bansal Publisher of JAMMAG magazine caught red-handed, for details click on the following links.

• Hindustan Times Article - Publisher goes underground
• Rashmi Bansal (Editor of JAMMAG)
• Rashmi Bansal (Publisher of JAMMAG)