Monday, March 8, 2010
We’re taking a break! Wrong timing, perhaps, but AIM Magazine is going on a short break until the end of March.
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Updated April 2nd: We’re back!
Friday, March 5, 2010
In early April a new festival celebrating Indian culture will be launched by London’s Southbank Centre.
Called ‘Alchemy’, the festival will feature a full programme of music, dance, literature, food, debate and fashion.
Events will range from a rare classical concert by celebrated composer A.R. Rahman to the very best UK Bhangra, to an evening of music and chat with the Grewal Family from Channel 4’s hit docu-drama The Family.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
After four years as Senior Reporter at Eastern Eye, Aditi Khanna has left the newspaper to go freelance. She will do some shifts on national newspapers as well as the BBC, telling AIM she was looking to develop more skills in online media.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
by Kieran Yates
Freelance Journalist
Nitin Swahney is one of the most prolific Indian composers, musicians and producers alive today.
But Monday’s performance at London’s Barbican Centre however, was something new even to me.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
The BBC’s director-general Mark Thompson yesterday acknowledged that the radio stations BBC Asian Network and 6Music were indeed going to be closed.
The corporation officially launched its Strategy Review, proposing that the Asian Network cease as a national digital service.
But the station could be replaced by a network of local services, with reduced hours, that will operate on analogue as well as digital licenses.
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Monday, March 1, 2010
by Sunny Hundal
Editor
Over the years I have been a constant critic of the BBC Asian Network. The station has been the subject of complaints over its confused music policy, not focusing enough on news and current affairs and not doing enough to develop new talent.
But it’s biggest problem has always been poor management. That is now evident more than ever before, given that its management seem to have failed spectacularly to internally make the case to keep the station.
But BBC Asian Network’s survival is important, and there are several reasons why. Here are some:
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Monday, March 1, 2010
by Sunny Hundal
Editor
By Friday afternoon, once the Conservative shadow culture minister Ed Vaizey had “welcomed” the leaked report in The Times, it looked like the BBC Asian Network’s fate was sealed.
The draft report has been widely seen as a response by BBC executives to strong pressure by the Conservative party to get the corporation to cut spending.
They ask why, at a time when the commercial sector is reeling from a downturn in the advertising sector, is the BBC not sharing some of the pain.
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