BOOK LAUNCH | Doordarshan Days by Manna Bahadur. Pub. Readomania. Doordarshan—a name that epitomized television for a whole nation for decades. Traveling through DD’s corridors and studios, celebrated anchor from the Eighties, Manna Bahadur brings alive all the juicy, spicy, and comical anecdotes behind the camera; the iconic presenters who became fashion trendsetters for a nation; the chaotic ‘live’ shows…while chronicling her own growth story. Doordarshan Days is a memoir that reminisces about DD’s anxious birth in 1959, teething pains in the Sixties, young golden period in the Eighties to the Kendra’s giant stature now.