World Radio Day: Just tune in, radio’s charm persists on simplicity, accessibility
New Delhi, Feb 12 (PTI) “You had your time, you had the power, you’ve yet to have, your finest hour, radio…” Thirty-nine years after Queen’s cult song “Radio Ga Ga” rocked the airwaves, listeners are agreed the best may still be around the corner for that much loved, so familiar and evolving with the times ‘audio device’. Quite simply, the radio.
It was sometime in the 1960s. Nemichand Barola was about 10. And remembers vividly melodious tunes from Radio Ceylon playing from a radio in a tiny paan shop in his hometown Ajmer adding to lazy afternoon vibes. Some six decades later, Barola, now a retired school principal, still prefers radio over television and turns to it for an odd little melody from his younger days and the essential news broadcast from an All India Radio channel.
“Radio doesn’t disturb me when I am writing or doing any work, it is not possible with TV or mobile phones. I don’t have to stop my work to listen to the radio,” Barola told PTI.
