Friday, September 07, 2012

Radio Sound drifting from Past

It is a warm cloudy day in Dallas. Off course warm from Dallas late Feb winter standards. As usual when I opened my Radio, and with a bit of search I ended up listening and was drifted sounds from past. The pastness, letreally was only 12 hours. But when I started listening it took me and my mind certainly too to a window that was looking much behind. Growing up in lower income calcutta and at a busy intersection on top of Haridevpur post office. From the time I got up, when the sound of traffic was low, to noon and afternoon when again the traffic died down, you could listen to the lower pan shop echoing the osunds of All India Radio. Most often though Vividh Baharati. The anathemic sound, which hs universality all over the nation. It captured and played popular music picked by letters ( the 15 paisa mail postcards).

But what Vividh Bharati was capturing the songs as demanded by majority of Indians, i.e. Rural and mostly Norht and Maharastrain folks.

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