Back in the pre-historic era of the 1960s and ’70s, our favourite entertainment was to twiddle the dials of the family radio to navigate through the crackling, fizzing waves of static and catch Radio ...

In the early 1950s, beginning in 1952 to be precise, All India Radio stopped broadcasting Hindi film music. Getting your hands on international music wasn’t the easiest thing to do back in the 1950s, ...

New Delhi, May 6 (newsin.asia): Radio, in our view is not merely a matter of technology through which music, entertainment, information, news and increasingly fake news and many other forms of ...

What might Louis Mountbatten, the last viceroy of British India, have to do with the popularity of filmi music? Quite a bit, it turns out. During the Second World War, Mountbatten, then supreme Allied ...

Last December, Radio Ceylon, as the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation is now known, turned 88. Inaugurated on December 16, 1925, Radio Ceylon was the first broadcasting station of South Asia. In ...

Ameen Sayani, who passed away today, was the voice behind Geetmala, or Binaca Geetmala, on Sri Lanka's Radio Ceylon, which played Hindi film music when India had banned AIR from broadcasting the same ...

The man who spoke to generations of Indians with his shuddh Hindi and clear diction looks back on what it took to become radio's best known name "Behenon aur bhaiyyon…" Half a century ago, the words ...

Sunil Dutt, before becoming a big star in Bollywood, used to be a radio jockey for Radio Ceylon. He hosted a show called 'Lux Ke Sitaray', as Balraj. Those were the days when Radio Ceylon was the only ...

Beheno aur bhaiyo, this is a fortnight so worth the song and dance about. It marks the 70th year of a show-of-shows appearing on the airwaves, which wiped Indians cleanly off the streets. Into their ...

Ameen Sayani, the doyen of Indian radio, died on Tuesday in Mumbai following a heart attack. He was 91. The news was confirmed by his son Rajil Sayani. Sayani, known for his mellifluous voice, ...

Ameen Sayani’s passing away on February 20 at the age of 91 brought the usual flood of reminiscences on social media accompanied by the mandatory easily digestible little packages of compilations of ...