The earliest radio station in Asia, Radio Ceylon, turned 100 last week. Nearly a decade older than All India Radio (AIR), the Sri Lankan radio service was once the Indian Subcontinent’s ears to the ...

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 ...

Extracted with permission from Akashvani: A Century of Stories from All India Radio, Vikrant Pande and Neelesh Kulkarni, HarperCollins Publishers India. IT WAS THE ’50S AND AIR WAS IN TURMOIL—IT WAS ...

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 ...