Both Sinha and Jetpurwalla had no prior experience in children’s programming. This Sunday morning fare initially had a simple format wherein Nandita, an anchor cum ventriloquist would appear with her glove puppet Tikku. Producer Kunwar Sinha, ‘a news and current affairs man’ (Sinha 2017) 2, and Mariam Jetpurwalla 3 supervised all the English programmes including Magic Lamp. They were aired during evenings between 6:30 pm and 7:00 pm on weekdays, and on Sunday mornings. ![]() There were four major children’s shows– Santakukadi (Gujarati), Kilbil (Marathi), Khel Khilone (Hindi) and Magic Lamp (English). The city’s cosmopolitan nature led to programming in 5 languages – English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, and Sindhi. ![]() ![]() With a compact team of 5 producers, Bombay Doordarshan 1 was inaugurated in Worli on Octo– coincidentally on Gandhi Jayanti.
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