A 8 p.m. on a Wednesday in 1954, in a middle-class family in Chennai, a 12-year-old girl and her younger brother were glued to their radio set, waiting to listen to their favourite “Binaca Geet Mala”, ...

It was in 1952 that the minister of information and broadcasting (I&B) of newly independent India, B.V. Keskar, decided that All India Radio (AIR)—the information and entertainment lifeline of the ...

ri Lanka’s Consul General to Mumbai Priyanga Wickramasinghe has paid rich homage to the country's Hindi radio service that has been a cultural bridge built across the Indian Ocean. As the Asia Hindi ...

It all began in the winter of 1952. Honchos of a top ad company were planning on Radio Ceylon, a show of Hindi film songs for its client, a chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate widely known in ...

For four decades, his voice united millions of Indians for an hour every Wednesday as he brought Hindi cinema's greatest songs in an unparalleled radio broadcast. Illustration: Dominic ...