Category: World Service
Date: 16.09.2005
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A debate on India's increasing role as one of the world's key economic players and the long-term effect of this shift on its social structure is one of the highlights of a major new radio and online season on Â鶹Éç World Service, entitled Who Runs Your World?
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The debate from New Delhi is being recorded on Friday 23 September for transmission on Â鶹Éç World Service radio on Sunday 25 September.
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It will explore the relationship between business and the state, and seeks to answer whether corporations are becoming more powerful than governments.
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Abbas Nasir, Head of Asia and Pacific Region, Â鶹Éç World Service, explains: "It is widely predicted that India will have a major impact on the global economy. It is already in the process of transforming itself into an economic superpower.
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"But who is leveraging this ascent? How is India's massive population going to share in this change, and just what effect will India have on the world's economic power balance?"
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Â鶹Éç presenter Anu Anand will chair the debate in front of an invited audience.
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Panellists include Executive Director of Nicholas Piramal India Dr Swati Piramal; social entrepreneur Abraham George; and Secretary General of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Amit Mitra.
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Anu Anand is also using the New Delhi event as an opportunity to undertake a series of in-depth one-to-one interviews with leading business people, including Rahul Bajaj of Bajaj Autos and Dr Vijay Mallya of Kingfisher.
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These will be broadcast on Sunday 25 September.
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Who Runs Your World? is the Â鶹Éç's largest ever single-themed season of programmes.
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Running from 16 September to 2 October, it will feature on all the Â鶹Éç global news services - TV, radio and online - in English and in 42 other languages including Bengali, Hindi, Tamil and Urdu.
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The season explores power: who wants it; how it is used and how it is changing. And it is not just about politics, as every aspect of life comes under the Who Runs Your World? spotlight including religion, business, sport, entertainment and the family.
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Special programmes include the five-part radio documentary Looking for Democracy, a debate on The Millennium Development Goals and an exploration of very personal relationships in a series of features called Face to Face.
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Note to Editors
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Â鶹Éç World Service is an international radio and online broadcaster delivering programmes and services in 43 languages.
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It uses multiple platforms to reach 149 million listeners globally, including SW, AM, FM, digital satellite and cable channels. It has more than 2,000 partner radio stations which take Â鶹Éç content, and numerous partnerships supplying content to mobile phones.
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Its international online sites include audio and visual content and offer users opportunities to interact directly with world events. They receive over 330 million page impressions a month.
