Some people recall the faces and some people recall the names. Here are images of some of the famous readers and presenters of Doordarshan down the years. If you recognize any of them, leave a comment.
[Update 1: Most of the faces now have names thanks to helpful comments by olio-gallimaufry]
[Update 2: Included image of one of the earliest presenters, Gopal Kaul. Send in generously from personal collection by son, Ashutosh Kaul. Sept, 2010.]

Doordarshan Signature Montage

[Major Update 3: Got a tip-off about a documentary about the famous faces of Doordarshan from the makers of “The Golden Trail , DD@50 :Special feature on Golden Jubilee of Doordarshan” from which these caps were taken. I managed to catch the incredible documentary and am adding some more faces/name and part of the docu here. New ones can be found after the image of Narotam Puri. 30th Oct, 2010]

Pratima Puri. Believed to be the first Doordarshan reader.

Gopal Kaul with Raj Kapoor.

Easiest face to recall. Salma Sultan [Previous post]

Kamleshwar. Writer.

Melville De Mello

~~Rini Khanna (?)~~ Mukta, used to cover program weekly letter and response based program Aap aur Hum. (thanks to anony tipoff, check the comments)

Minu Talwar

Another one of Minu Talwar

Sudha Chopra. Also appeared in a couple of films.

Jyotsana Rai

One more of Jyotsana Rai

Another one of Jyotsana Rai

Manoj Raghuvanshi

Veena Mishra (updated based on comment)

Arshiya Bawa

Vinod Dua. Another famous face. Later moved to NDTV.

K.K. Raina.

~~Nalini Singh~~ Harsaran Bir Kaur (?)

Narotam Puri, used to cover sports

Mukta Shrivastav

Gitanjali Ayyar

Gitanjali Iyer in print ad for Solidaire Tv. 1988. The Indian Express. (for reference check comments)

Kaveri Mukherjee

Shobhana Jagdish

Rama Pandey

Avinash Kaur Sarin

Baritone Tejeshwar Singh

Gerson Da Cunha

Glamorous Komal G. B. Singh.
Last famous appearance - at the start of year 2010 in a televison ad for e-bay with Narrotam Puri.

Still with DD

Dolly Thakore interviewing Hema Malini in a phone-in program.
Trivia: Indira Gandhi's defeat in 1977 election and Janta Party's win was announced on Doordarshan by newsreader Dolly Thakore. It is said that she, characteristically of a Doordarshan reader, was smiling.

Jayanthi Natarajan interviewing General Cariappa. She started her career at Doordarshan Madras.
She went on to join politics.

Shobhna Ravi

Sashi Kumar interviewing Kamal Hassan. Sashi Kumar. Started at madras station of Doordarshan and later among other things went on to launch Asiannet, India's first regional satellite channel.

Bhakti Barve, theater artist and film actor, started her career at Bombay station of Doordarshan.

Smita Patil started at Bombay station of Doordarshan as a reader.

Luku Sanyal, daughter of actor Pahari Sanyal, the first face of English news in Mumbai, with 'The News'.

Rajiv Mehrotra

Prannoy Roy hosting ~~'The week that was~~'The World This Week.

Suneet Tandon

N. Vishwanathan, from Calcutta Doordarshan. Acted in Satyajit Ray's Kanchenjunga (1962)

Sarla Maheshwari

Neethi Ravindran

Shobhana Jagdish

Ved Prakash

As I have written a bit about Kashmir station while writing about Doordarshan, it was an added delight to see Doordarshan Kashmir make a special appearance in the Documentary.