[IRCA] Fw: [dx_india] Nostalgia - Looking for the lost voices

["Bob Foxworth" <rfoxwor1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Alokesh" <alokeshgupta@xxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 22:07
Subject: [dx_india] Nostalgia - Looking for the lost voices


> Looking for the lost voices
>
> S.K. VASISHTA
> "WHERE are the sounds of the radio?" I asked myself when my
six-year-old
> daughter accidentally flicked the two-in-one into radio mode. She was
> startled to hear a sea of undulating voices emerge from the system.
> I realised that I had not really listened to the radio's moody,
whimsical
> mischievous sounds for ages. It also struck me that the loss had been
mine.
> The flat clear sounds of the TV and the predictable songs of the
> tape-recorder had drowned out the romance of the radio.
> TV has put an end to Radio Ceylon, the ubiquitous Ameen Sayani and
Binaca
> Geetmala, Sanforised ke Mehman, Cadbury Something ... all these
programmes
> had been mesmerising. Getting clear sound on the highly crowded
25-metre bad
> was a challenge and when it did come through, it was a victory. And
that was
> itself more than half the fun.
> Then came Vividh Bharati, not to replace Radio Ceylon but to
complement it.
> How we would wiat to hear the hour-long "Ek Film Ki Kahani". The sound
would
> fade for endless seconds only to come back, much to our joy. We were
glued
> to the transistor, turning it north, south, east, west, up, down,
right,
> left - all possible directions cajoling it to come alive. Sometimes it
even
> got a slap. But it was so necessary to get the voice; it was our
voice. This
> is how we saw "Zindagi", "Aayi Milan ki Bela", "Dosti", "Kohra" and a
whole
> of movies of the 1960s.
> There were Delhi A and Delhi B. They were either filler or full time
> contestants. Can I ever forget Madhu Malti's mellifluous voice? It was
as
> haunting as Noor Jahan's "awaaz de kahan hai" and Mubarak Begum's
"kabhi
> tanhaiyon mein". There was "Jhalki at 2.00 p.m., Charanjeet's "Dhol ki
pol",
> late night western classical music, Philip Nigam (Where are You?) with
"A
> Date With You".
> Urdu Service was such an ear opener. Anwar Anjum's sad voice,
afternoon film
> songs, tamil-e-irshad, the endless repetition of particular songs from
> "Pakeezah", "Jewel Thief", "Johnny Mera Naam", the mischievous
tete-e-tete
> of its host, so alive and different from the current VJs. All this is
now
> buried in my memory.
> Radio brought the whole world to my small cot. Radio Australia (ask if
I
> miss Chakrapani?), Radio South Africa's delightful signature tune, the
very
> essential Ratnakar Bharti on BBC, Voice of Germany, the distant Voice
of
> America, the heavy military voice of Radio Moscow - where are they
now?
> Playing hide and seek with a transistor small enough to be hidden
under your
> bed was a delight. Can you hide your TV under a quilt? Indeed the
radio is a
> comfort while the TV only hurts your eyes. Can you enjoy Noor Jahan,
> Suraiya, Talat Mehmood, Pankaj Mallik on TV? And which TV gives you
Bach,
> Mozart and Ravel? I still remember the day I got Ravel's "Bolero" on
Delhi
> B - how transformed and complete the day was!
> While the TV makes you it slave; the radio allows you so much
imagination,
> so much freedom that it allows you to eat your cake and have it too.
>
> http://www.hindu.com/mag/2005/09/25/stories/2005092500440600.htm
>
> ---------------
> Gautam Kr Sharma
> Assam.
>

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