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Panos Radio South Asia (PRSA) is an undertaking of Panos

South Asia. In keeping with Panos South Asia’s mission

to encourage and stimulate informed public debate on

key developmental issues in South Asia and to ensure the

effective flow of information from media in the south to the

north and vice versa, Panos Radio South Asia produces radio

programs to be distributed via the internet and Interworld

Radio (www.interworldradio.org).

PRSA currently produces a 15-minute radio magazine titled “Panoscope” and

“Development Dilemmas”, a nearly half-an-hour long radio discussion, that

aims to capture the voices of poor and marginalized people in South Asia on

general development issues including Panos South Asia’s five thematic areas

- conflict, environment, globalization, media pluralism and public health.

‘Panoscope’ is an independent production of Panos Radio

South Asia (PRSA). A fortnightly production, ‘Panoscope’ is

a 15-minute radio magazine with features, commentaries,

oral testimonies and interviews on key South Asian

development issues. ‘Panoscope’ is committed to providing

media space for raising the voices of the poor and

marginalized in development and issues not often heard in

the mainstream media.

‘Development Dilemmas’ brings together multiple voices twice a month

on a single theme, drawing the attention of policy makers as well as

ordinary citizens to the innumerable nuances that characterize our

development models. It is a seminar room; a meeting place; a debating

site and an incubator of new ideas, methods, and systems to facilitate

free flow of knowledge from the portals of academia and experts to

ordinary citizens and vice-versa through the wonderful gateway called

media.

Panos South Asia (PSA) realizes the compelling needs to bridge the

yawning gap between the decision making process and the citizens.

Only a multi-directional information flow can create inclusive policy

paradigms that make people’s life less burdensome.

Panos South Asia’s latest effort, to create a public site ‘Development

Dilemmas’, stems from this desire. The focus is to constantly remind

everyone that there is no ONE right opinion but multiple right opinions

and the need of the hour is to make this as plural and inclusive as

possible.

Development Dilemmas (DD) is a radio discussion, of around half-an-

hour duration. It is an independent production of Panos Radio South

Asia, an undertaking of Panos South Asia.

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