📚 Authored Works · 57+ Years of Broadcasting Science
Books by Prof. Dr. Sir Hari Om Srivastava
Landmark publications in Interactive Television, Broadcast Technology, and Knowledge Agriculture® — authored by one of India's top 10 scientists and the Father of Community Radio in India.
Interactive TV Technology and Markets
Artech House, Boston, USA · 2001
Authored Publications
The book integrates IoT, UAVs, satellite systems, generative AI, cloud computing, and advanced analytics to guide precision decisions across the entire food chain — from seeding and irrigation to fertilisation and distribution. Inspired by Modi's Vision for Global Trust and Shared Prosperity. A co-authored work in which Prof. Dr. Sir Hari Om Srivastava is the primary author and visionary behind Knowledge Agriculture®.
A forward-looking treatise on interactive television that illustrates how interactivity is changing the face of TV broadcasting. Provides critical technical, strategic, and creative expertise for the development of interactive systems and their business potential. Covers bandwidth limitations of analogue TV, the shift to digital cable, satellite and terrestrial networks, content creation for ITV, T-Commerce, distance learning, audience feedback, and the emergence of the Broadcast Markup Language (BML). Covers DVB, ISDB, HDTV, VOD, and multimedia broadcast services comprehensively.
This enormous treasury of sparkling memories and candid photographs presents a fascinating history of broadcast media — its development over one hundred years and the engineering facilitating such a magical network, in totality. Covers: History of Broadcasting · Broadcast Basics · Recording and Studio Techniques · Production Techniques · Transmission Technique · Receiving Systems · Measurements, Charts and Test Signals · Broadcasting in India · Appendix · Glossary. A must-buy for those in broadcast media in any form.
The Hindi edition of Broadcast Technology — covering the past, present, and future of broadcasting — published under the prestigious Department of Science and Technology, Government of India publication programme. Makes the evolution of broadcast engineering, radio, and television technology accessible to a Hindi-speaking scientific and academic audience across India.
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The most internationally recognised book is Interactive TV Technology and Markets, published by Artech House, Boston, USA on 21 December 2001 (ISBN: 1-58053-321-3). It is catalogued in the Library of Congress (LOC No. 2001055248) and held in university libraries across the USA, Europe, and India including BITS Pilani. The book invented the Broadcast Markup Language (BML) for digital broadcasting and interactive television — foreseeing the interactive TV revolution two decades before it became mainstream.
The Broadcast Markup Language (BML) was invented by Prof. Dr. Sir Hari Om Srivastava and introduced in his book Interactive TV Technology and Markets (Artech House, Boston, 2001). BML is a language designed for digital broadcasting, interactive TV (ITV), and enhanced TV (ETV), enabling the embedding of extended codes and syntax in broadcast programmes. It is now recognised as a trademarked invention under Scientific and Technological Innovation by the Government of India.
The upcoming book is Smart Farming Meets Ancient Wisdom: Cultivating Knowledge Agriculture® for Global Hunger Solution, co-authored with Aprajita Srivastava, where Prof. Dr. Sir Hari Om Srivastava is the primary author. It presents Knowledge Agriculture® — a Government of India trademarked innovation pioneered by him in 2018 — as a four-pillar framework (Farm to Fork Technology, Global Education Ecosystem, Fair Data Repository, Collaborative Network) integrating IoT, UAVs, AI, and cloud computing to address SDG-2 Zero Hunger for 660 million people projected to face hunger by 2030.
Interactive TV Technology and Markets is available at major global bookstores including Amazon.in, Amazon.com, Flipkart, Google Books, Google Play, AbeBooks, Barnes & Noble, Artech House UK, eBay, Waterstones, Eyrolles (France), Biblio.co.nz (New Zealand), Internet Archive, and yes24.com (Japan). The full book is also freely readable as a PDF at wdfindia.in. It is stocked in numerous university libraries including the Library of Congress, Texas State University, University of Colorado Boulder, BITS Pilani, Gonzaga University, Emerson College, and CSUCA.
The Hindi book is Prasaran Takniki, Kal, Aaj aur Kal (Broadcast Technology: Past, Present and Future), ISBN-13: 9788176568418, published by BPB Publications under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India book publication programme. It makes authoritative broadcast engineering knowledge accessible to Hindi-speaking readers and scientists across India.
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