Website for birders and bird watching in India and South Asia. Migration & taxonomy of birds.With more than 1250 species of birds, India and South Asia are a paradise for bird watching. There are over 925 breeding species (~920 residents). The Indian birds belong to 16 groups called 'Orders', which are further divided into 'Families', 'Sub-families' and 'Genera'. For birding in India, 13 bio-geographical regions can be demarcated: Trans Himalayan, Western Himalayas, Eastern Himalayas, Desert, Semi-arid, Gangetic plain, Central India, Deccan Plateau, Western Ghats, Eastern Ghats, North East, Coasts and the Andaman Nicobar Islands. The Blue Peafowl (Pavo cristatus) is the national bird of India

Date Added: Jun 3, 2007 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0

Asia, India's leading wildlife, conservation and environment magazine, was started by Editor Bittu Sahgal in 1981 to raise awareness among Indians of their disappearing natural heritage. The overwhelming response to the magazine led to the birth of Sanctuary Cub, a children's nature magazine, in 1984 and to The Ecologist Asia (Indian edition of The Ecologist, U.K.) a journal dedicated to the issues of the environment, development and human rights, in 1993.
In the 1980s, Sanctuary Films produced two wildlife/conservation serials aired on Doordarshan, India's national television network. The first, Project Tiger, was a documentary while the other, Rakshak, was a narrative serial for children. The films were shot on 16 mm. and the Sanctuary team visited virtually every wildlife haven in India (stock footage available on request).

Date Added: Jun 5, 2007 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0

MTV, India’s leading multimedia youth platform, caters to the interests and passions of 15-34 year olds, offering them an exciting mix of music and non-music programming (Bollywood, adventure, humor, fashion & style and fiction), presented in its inimitable style by Indian VJs. Since its launch in 1996, the channel has won numerous awards at Indian as well as International level for its unique humor and unmatched creativity. Known for its unique properties (MTV Immies, MTV Music Summit for AIDS, Style Awards, MTV Youth Marketing Forum, MTV VJ Hunt, MTV Youth Icon and MTV Roadies among others), the channel has today become a preferred destination for advertisers to reach out to Indian youth. With over 545,624 hyperactive users www.mtvindia.com continues to be the most popular youth hangout online. MTV India is a part of the MTV Networks, world’s largest television network reaching out to 481.5m households across 171 territories. For the 6th consecutive year, MTV was named The World's Most Valuable Media Brand by Business Week & Interbrand's 2005 Best Global Brands study.

Date Added: Sep 13, 2007 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0

National Geographic Channel India - Interactive site showcasing documentaries in the fields of wildlife, environment, science, adventure and natural phenomena. Programme listings, descriptions and in-depth features are provided.

Date Added: Sep 13, 2007 Hits: 1 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0

Sony Entertainment Television is dedicated to provide the best in Hindi family entertainment to the largest percentage of the Indian population-the young adult.
Sony Entertainment Television in India is the first venture of Sony Pictures Entertainment, the biggest entertainment powerhouse of America. As part of the Sony family, our channel has access to a wide variety of international software from film and television divisions of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Date Added: Sep 13, 2007 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0

national service planned, developed and operated by the Prasar Bharati Corporation of India
Sound broadcasting started in India in 1927 with the proliferation of private radio clubs. The operations of All India Radio began formally in 1936, as a government organisation, with clear objectives to inform, educate and entertain the masses.
When India attained Independence in 1947, AIR had a network of six stations and a complement of 18 transmitters. The coverage was 2.5% of the area and just 11% of the population. Rapid expansion of the network took place post Independence.
AIR today has a network of 223 broadcasting centres with 143 medium frequency(MW), 54 high frequency (SW) and 161 FM transmitters. The coverage is 91.42% of the area , serving 99.13% of the people in the largest democracy of the world. AIR covers 24 Languages and 146 dialects in home services. In Externel services, it covers 27 languages; 17 national and 10 foreign languages.

Date Added: Sep 17, 2007 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0

Entertainment news site for Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata covering Arts, Theatre, Plays, Music, Dance, Seminars, Workshops, TV, Radio, Food, Eating, Courses

Date Added: Sep 24, 2007 Hits: 1 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0

Daler Singh was born in Patna, Bihar on August 18th, 1967. He was born into a family of musicians who had been singing for seven generations. His early influences on music are his parents, who taught him the ragas and Shabad's from the Guru Granth Sahib Ji. At age 11 inspired by the Patiala Gharana style of Indian Classical Music, he ran away from home in search of the Late Ustad Raahat Ali Khan Sahib of Gorakhpur for lessons. Gave his first stage performance in front of an audience of 20,000 at the age of 13 in Jaunpur where his parents found him standing center-stage, his shoulders overflowing with garlands of flowers, sandalwood and money. Classical music of the great Indian Maestros heard on radio, concerts and cassettes of the legendary Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Nazakat Ali- Salamat Ali, Mehdi Hasan, Parvaiz Mehdi, Chote Ghulam Ali Khan and the Illahi Kirtan Durbars attended all over India provided him with an introduction into the world of gurmat sangeet, thumri, khayal, ghazal.
By 1991, he formed his own group comprising of his brother's, cousins and musician friends. Daler performed at the Who's Who and within a year was a must have at each socialite's do. The legendary Impressario the Late A.J Jaspalof IPCA who gave Daler a Professional set up promoted Daler "as the Golden Goose to Watch out for." In 1994, A J Jaspal sent Daler to compete at the prestigious annual Voice of Asia International Ethnic and Pop Music Contest at Azia Dynasys in ALMATY, Kazakhstan. Daler Mehndi representing India was judged 2nd amongst 200 contestants from world over by 20,000 strong audience. He was quoted by the judges as the 'MOST ORIGINAL SOUND FOUND IN 3 DECADES'.
That was the first time Bhangra Music was acknowledged outside Punjab (a Northern State of India) and firmly plastered its presence on the global scenario.

Date Added: Sep 29, 2007 Hits: 6 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0

India-Picture will seduce you to a far off world. Maybe you know some of the places and people seen in the pictures. I am a Journalist who once studied Indology. I want to develop India Picture as a non-profit project. All income at present from the sale of the pictures will go directly back into the project. The collection of Pictures will be enhanced updated and modified as far as I can find time for this.
In the long term I will change the financing of the project from selling pictures to sponsorship. Though presently there is a lot of traffic (more than 2000 page impressions a day, still increasing). For sponsors there will be a separate page. So if you feel like sponsoring this site write me a few lines and I will contact you. The money will go into better technical equipment as Slide-Scanner, Content Management System or a faster Webspace. If there is more, I will take it for the supply of new Pictures.
Most of the pictures are scanned slides. - At present there is no other procedure that can produce comparable results. No digital camera can take pictures that have a size of 5000x3300, in a sum, 16,5 Million Pixelels. If not zipped such a picture is a file of up to 90MB. As a rule enlargements of parts of the picture make sense. You see an example beside. The marked sector has in spite of a high compression still more than 600KB or 2200x3000 pixels!

Date Added: Oct 30, 2007 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0

National Film Development Corporation of India is the central agency established to encourage the good cinema movement in the country. The primary goal of the NFDC is to plan, promote and organize an integrated and efficient development of the Indian film industry and foster excellence in cinema. Over the years NFDC has provided a wide range of services essential to the growth of Indian cinema. The NFDC (and its predecessor the Film Finance Corporation) has so far funded / produced over 300 films. These films, in various Indian languages, have been widely acclaimed and have won many national and international awards.

Date Added: Nov 18, 2007 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0