By Tirthankar Mitra One of world’s oldest broadcasters, Radio Ceylon, has turned 100. It arrived decades before television ...
Radio Ceylon, one of the world’s oldest radio broadcasters, turned 100 last week. At a time when radio was a novelty and ...
PO Box 574, Colombo' the SLBC's unique address was set up due to the sheer volume of the fan mail and several hundreds of ...
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, ...
How Jhumri Telaiya, a small mica town, became synonymous with radio song requests and Binaca Geetmala, dominating India’s radio waves for decades.
Radio has been part of Zareef Ahmad Zareef’s life since childhood. Today, he listens every morning and says it’s “a mandatory indulgence” in the evenings. A Kashmiri poet, Zareef has worked on radio ...
Radio Ceylon, once a cultural powerhouse, captivated Indian listeners by defying a 1950s AIR ban on film songs. Its popular Hindi service and iconic shows like 'Binaca Geet Mala' forced AIR to compete ...
Tampa Bay Indian & World Music & Festival will celebrate the rich Performing Arts of India, Africa, Spain, and other cultural Music and dance from around the World. The all-day extravaganza, aimed at ...
Learn about the history, and future, of the musical art form. Devesh Chandra started playing the tabla (Indian hand drums) at age three, learning from the sounds of Northern Indian classical music ...