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 ...

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 ...

Sri Lanka is celebrating the Centenary year of its radio service this year. It was indeed a momentous event when the Sri Lankan radio service, Radio Ceylon, was launched on December 16, 1925, making ...

Growing up in India, I spent a lot of time listening to Hindi music on Radio Ceylon. I didn't know it at the time, but my attachment to the Colombo-based broadcaster was a perfect example of its ...

Jhumri Telaiya in Jharkhand has a large number of All India Radio followers who send song requests to the radio station. It was here, when I was on an assignment, a few years ago that I came across ...

In 1952, B V Keskar, Union minister for Broadcasting, decided to ban film songs from All India Radio for their ‘erotic’ nature, and relay only classical music. It meant listeners had access to songs ...

Colombo : Sri Lankan radio service that was once popular across India as just 'Radio Ceylon' and popularised 'Binaca Geetmala,' a one of its kind weekly countdown show of Hindi film songs, turned 100 ...

‘Radio Ceylon’ may seem like an aberration today; Ceylon itself, after all, is now Sri Lanka. Yet, as the iconic radio station turns 100 this month, its legacy continues to serve as a reminder of the ...

Imagine the era of the 1960s, when television was a distant dream and the internet did not exist. At that time, a small box called a radio was the lifeblood of the Indian middle-class drawing room.