The How-to Video Was How Most Indians Discovered TV
In the '70s, Indira Gandhi's government conducted a massive social project called the "Satellite Instructional Television Experiment," installing community televisions in villages that sometimes barely had a car battery to power them with.
It was a more forward-thinking plan than even Gandhi could see: "The state was the one to detonate the information bomb of the 1980s, but it couldn’t control the force of the explosion or see past the smoke of its own grand plans."