Rathikant Basu, Chairman & CEO of Broadcast Worldwide, no more
Rathikant Basu was Executive Chairman of Star India between 1996 and 2001, DG of Doordarshan and MIB Additional Secy from 1993 to 1996; Was Secretary of Department of Electronics too
Rathikant Basu, the Chairman & CEO of Broadcast Worldwide Limited, passed away on Sunday. He was 82.
Rathikant Basu held many key posts in the M&E industry, He was the Executive Chairman of Star India between 1996 and 2001.
He served as the Director General of Doordarshan and Additional Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting from 1993 to 1996. He was later appointed Secretary of the Department of Electronics.
Basu was also associated with Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited for 5 years as the Executive Director.
RIP Mr Basu. Almost all of us who started in television in the Nineties owe him a huge debt of gratitude.
— vir sanghvi (@virsanghvi) March 17, 2024
He was a visionary who succeeded in both the IAS & the private sector & fathered the satellite TV revolution in India.
My condolences to the family. pic.twitter.com/FtouYbsFB3
Rathikant Basu, the bureaucrat who hoped over from Doordarshan to Rupert Murdoch’s Star TV at the dawn of satellite broadcasting in India, has passed on, at age 82. pic.twitter.com/Zn7BAk6ttQ
— churumuri (@churumuri) March 17, 2024
No one saw it up close ; incomparable in more ways than one. RIP #RathikantBasu pic.twitter.com/tffoFUJc8a
— Sudha Sadhanand (@kitaab31) March 17, 2024
Rathikant Basu IAS, who got Star TV to India and former head of Doordarshan passes away. pic.twitter.com/53rnlOXeyc
— SHOME BASU (@shomebasu) March 17, 2024
