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Historic voices spared the ringtone race

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From: The Hindustan Times
Date: 20060818
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NEW DELHI, India, Aug 18 -- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's historic Delhi chalo speech, Rabindra Sangeet sung by Rabindranath Tagore himself and speeches by Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru as mobile ringtones. Great marketing idea? Not as far as Information and Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi is concerned.

When the I&B minister discovered that a telecom major had bought the original recordings of these speeches, he threw a fit. It all started when the firm invited the minister to launch the special ringtones, purchased from the government's own archives under a special MoU, ...

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