Nostalgia about the All India Radio

  Nostalgia about the All India Radio| All India Radio This  post is about the sweet memories of All India Radio or, as we call it, Akashwani. I know we still have access to the radio and it still has many listeners. But my point of the discussion is, how important radio was back then in and before the 1990s.   Growing in a middle-class background, our day used to start with radio.  As the sun would shed its light on our eyes, we’d wake up with the morning bhajans, followed by the news. The news used to be transmitted from Delhi. Radio was a very useful and impactful device back then. Once we  would come back from our schools in the afternoon, it’d be Vividh Bharati with its rhythmic start. I remember there used to be a program named "Sakhi Saheli". It was mostly my mother who used to have her radio running in her kitchen. Later in the drawing-room, when she would do other home chores such as stitching, sorting the veggies, and cleaning cupboards, or even foldin...