Tag: Akashvani
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The Man Who Made India Sing Together: A Tribute to Ameen Sayani
ust a couple of days after the sad death of the one and only Ameen Sayani, I stumbled upon a photo with him, taken by his son at the NCPA, Mumbai. ‘August 2019’ was scrawled on it and I had gone there to deliver the Jamshed Bhabha Memorial Talk on Indian Culture. I was his…
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Vagaries of Akashvani (All India Radio)
Under the present dispensation, Akashvani has become whimsical. Programmes are started, dispensed with, renamed or disrupted abruptly, reminding of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s whimsical announcements of demonetisation and lockdown without any planning, forethought or preparations for the consequences likely to follow. One afternoon some weeks back the Bhopal station of Akashvani abruptly started relaying Punjabi…