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 ...

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 ...

You have been doing very little on radio these days.(Laughs) That's not entirely correct. I have been on Red FM and a few other stations, but I think since I have not been on Radio Ceylon for a long ...

'Namaste behno aur bhaiyo, main aapka dost Ameen Sayani bol raha hoon,' the familiar greeting and the instantly identifiable voice coasted on airwaves into countless homes every Wednesday on Radio ...

In around 1954, Radio Ceylon, in its Sinhala broadcast, serialised Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. I was a nine-year-old at the time. The reading of a translation of Dostoyevsky’s classic, partly ...

A childhood governed by Radio Ceylon’s immaculately timed 8 a.m. Saigal finale. K. L. Saigal as both generational irritant and quiet cultural giant, misunderstood by those who grew up on Rafi and ...