in a T-shirt and tattered jeans, where he had to compete with around 10,000 aspirants. Devki Nandan Pandey, a veteran news broadcaster, praised his performance. Then started his 20-year association with the channel. Narang developed a style for himself, with his baritone of a voice. With the newscasts of those days having significantly fewer visuals and more of impersonal, restrained vocal illustrations, Narang became 'the face of Doordarshan news reading' with his correctness in pronunciation and diction. People even regarded news readers to be powerful enough to influence the Government for them. Narang recalled once, in an interview, an incident after he had read out a new pension scheme for ex-servicemen, wherein an elderly havaldar had turned up at his door two days later, pleading him to update his pension scheme. Referring to the allegations on the then newscasters of reading out lies in favour of the Government, Narang said that they don't read lies, but just hid the truth. Doordarshan lost its acclaimed spot after cable and satellite television entered India as it just couldn't stand the competition, with its refusal to adapt to the age of live telecasts. The crews in the competing channels were also comparatively younger, as against the predominantly middle aged Doordarshan crowd. Initially regarded as an expensive novelty, cable television gradually picked up, eventually pushing Doordarshan to become a 'dull-as-ditchwater propaganda machine' of the Government, despite initiatives taken by its professional Directors General. With the trend then demanding the old newsreaders to switch to the roles of news anchors, not many were able to adapt and instead changed their pursuits. Referring to this, Narang said that he would have been a misfit in the current era. On the current scene, Narang observed that it has become 'trivialised' and added that 'the young reporters, fresh out of college, in vogue now would be good in interviewing filmstars but wouldn't be an appropriate choice before Dr Karan Singh or Manmohan Singh.' After Doordarshan Narang switched to doing voice-overs and compering shows post Doordarshan. He has done theatre with artists like Sheila Bhatia. Narang has been compering the Godfrey Phillips National Bravery Awards ceremony since its inception in 1997. In 1998, Narang founded Studio Pindrop, Delhi's first digital recording studio, which is popular among voice over artists and musicians. He is also a visiting faculty at MADarts, Jaspal Bhatti's film school, and has done voice-overs for its