Hyderabad, April 26 -- Mohd Abdul Ishaq sits in his 30-year-old shop, surrounded by television sets from different eras of entertainment, blissfully repairing machines. If one were to peek into his store, it would feel like stepping back in time when televisions were an important medium of information.

In a small ten-by-eight-foot store located on the Puranapul-Karwan road, one of the oldest routes existing since the Golconda era (1518-1687) that is dotted with heritage monuments, sits Mohd Abdul Ishaq repairing old television sets.

Black and white and colour television sets dating back to the 1990s and early 2000s are scattered around in his shop, which his family has been running for over 30 years now.

Ishaq is one among the handful ...