IIT-Kanpur alumnus does with radio what Marconi couldn't

CHENNAI/KANPUR: For his PhD at Stanford, 28-year-old electrical engineer Dinesh Bharadia decided he was not going to choose a problem that was "trivial". So he settled in on something that had stumped scientists for 150 years - how to turn radio communication two-way.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kanpur/IIT-Kanpur-alumnus-does-with-radio-what-Marconi-couldnt/articleshow/54339711.cms

First among the IITs, Kanpur gets its own community radio

Kautilya Singh Posted: Saturday , Mar 27, 2010 at 0156 hrs Kanpur:
Celebrating its golden jubilee year, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) became the first IIT of the country to have its own campus community radio station. Director of IIT-K, Sanjay Govind Dhande, inaugurated the campus community radio station on Friday.

The IIT-K community radio channel at 90.4 MHZ has been given a two-hour broadcast time in the morning and two hours in the evening.

Full story at :

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/First-among-the-IITs--Kanpur-gets-its-own-community-radio/596247/