ChaiCast: World Radio Day and a lifetime of radio listening
I am not in love with my voice and there are very credible reasons for that. And this is perhaps in over a decade of blogging, it is now now…Continue Reading →
Listen: Indira Gandhi announcing the Emergency on All India Radio, June 26, 1975
President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the ‘Proclamation of Emergency‘ on the night of June 25, 1975, but it was in…
Mahalaya: The Advent of Autumn
Today is Mahalaya, the day of invocation of goddess Durga in her Mahisasurmardini form (the slayer of the demon Mahisasur).…
Sharmila Tagore in 1966 Murphy Radio Ad
The language was Bangla, but the accent and the stories, distinguishably Chinese. An avid radio listener, my father tried to inculcate this dying habit into his sons. FM is not…Continue Reading →
