9 Gems of Indian News Anchoring from the Golden Days

The golden period of Indian news anchoring was probably the time when Doordarshan, the state-run TV channel, was the only option for the multitudes of the country. Dissemination of news through TV may not have been as competitive as an industry or technically advanced at the time as it is now but it is perhaps the only period when news anchors received a treatment almost at par with that of any leading movie star. Here are nine gems from the golden days, do you remember any of them?

1. Pratima Puri:

2. Melville De Mello:

3. Ved Prakash:

4. Salma Sultana:

5. Shammi Narang:

6. Suneet Tandon:

7. Shobhana Jagdish:

8. Neethi Ravindran:

9. Sarla Maheshwari: