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  • Aakhya India appoints Archana Dutta as CEO

    Aakhya India appoints Archana Dutta as CEO

    MUMBAI: Aakhya India has roped in Archana Dutta as their CEO. Prior to joining Aakhya, Dutta served as the director of loyalty at Hyatt Hotels for 5.5 years where she gained skills as a trainer, coach, and strategist. She also spent 17 years at Lufthansa German Airlines; there, she was the loyalty head for India and was at the forefront of corporate sales.

    In her new role, she will expand the corporate portfolio for the company. She will also focus on developing and leading significant tools and capabilities within the Aakhya India team to help deliver enhanced integrated solutions to clients.

    Aakhya India  founder-president Kavita Datta said, “We’re extremely delighted to welcome Archana as the chief executive officer. Our niche for the last many years has been focused on 360-degree communications solutions to various state governments and ministries and multinational corporates, and we are now diversifying not just our client portfolio but also our services and deliverables. We believe that Archana’s dedication and experience will prove to be unmatched and we look forward to working with her to achieve new milestones.”

    “It’s a apleasure to join Aakhya India as the CEO. Due to the pandemic, I have had to hit the ground running to ensure insulating our clients and partners in the best possible way. It’s amazing to see the team working so hard- some remotely and some on the ground during these difficult times, Dutta said. 

  • DD News stirs a storm by telecasting live RSS annual day event

    DD News stirs a storm by telecasting live RSS annual day event

    NEW DELHI: Doordarshan has come under fire from various political parties and social media activists for telecasing live-for the first time – the speech by Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to the organisation’s cadres.

    The RSS is the ideological parent of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party; it describes itself as a cultural outfit devoted to the betterment of the nation and upholding Hindu values.

     

    Almost all the opposition parties, which describe the RSS as anti-secular, said the telecast of the speech amounts to misuse of state television by the government.

    However, DD News Director Archana Dutta justified the telecast, saying: “It is a news event for us and that is why we covered it like any other newsworthy event.” However, this event has never been covered live, and in previous years including the years when Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee was Prime Minister, it was reported on by a stringer and not by a DD correspondent.”

     “DD is run by public money. So how is government using it to broadcast the RSS chief’s speech?” said Rashid Alvi of the Congress. “The RSS uses the occasion to propagate its Hindutva ideology,” said the CPI (M) declaring Doordarshan “has no business” in broadcasting the speech.

    The BJP’s Shaina NC defended the broadcast, stating, “I am glad that this speech has been highlighted and people realise that if there is one cadre in the country today that has genuinely contributed to patriotism and nation-building, it is the RSS.”

    The annual Vijaya Dashami or Dussehra speech by the RSS chief has never been telecast before by Doordarshan. The address articulates the organisation’s vision and agenda for its 4.5 million volunteers, who played an invaluable role in the electoral victory of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May, who was an RSS volunteer for many years before joining the BJP.

    Congress leader Salman Khurshid said that the decision was unacceptable, adding that the Congress refused to accept the RSS as ‘above board’ in the national discourse of India. “What they (the RSS) want and what they believe in is not in tune with the values of this country,” he said in comments to the media.

     

    The CPI-M also said it was an instance of the “public broadcaster being misused by the Modi government.”

     

    Prominent historian Ramachandra Guha called the decision a “dangerous misuse of the state machinery”, a tweet that has earned him an editorial in Niti Central, titled Ramachandra Guha’s hypocrisy on Doordarshan.

     

    The decision has also sparked a massive debate on Twitter with those for and against it clashing on the social network. Questions are being asked whether DD will also air speeches by the Chief of the Golden Temple, VC of Darul Uloom or the Archbishop of Sacred Heart Cathedral.