As Radio Ceylon turns 100, trace how war, music, and commercial radio shaped Asia’s most beloved broadcaster. A story of ...

Radio Ceylon, one of the world’s oldest radio broadcasters, turned 100 last week. At a time when radio was a novelty and ...

By Tirthankar Mitra One of world’s oldest broadcasters, Radio Ceylon, has turned 100. It arrived decades before television ...

Jhumri Telaiya, known for its rich history entwined with Radio Ceylon, gained fame for its frequent song requests on the station. The town's history, deeply rooted in the mica industry, saw a surge in ...

Politics are normally wild in Ceylon. Last week they were even wilder than usual. The world’s only woman head of government, Mrs. Solomen West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, who has ruled Ceylon since ...

In the early 1950s, beginning in 1952 to be precise, All India Radio stopped broadcasting Hindi film music. Getting your hands on international music wasn’t the easiest thing to do back in the 1950s, ...

What might Louis Mountbatten, the last viceroy of British India, have to do with the popularity of filmi music? Quite a bit, it turns out. During the Second World War, Mountbatten, then supreme Allied ...

Radio Ceylon filled the vacuum with shows like Binaca Geetmala bringing the best of Bollywood music to millions of fans ...

In the remote, jungled landscapes of India and in the alleyways of cities of Ceylon, music can be heard. To most occidental ears such music sounds queer and ugly, as the Philadelphia Symphony ...

Lit In Ceylon, the new mixtape from veteran Three 6 Mafia knucklehead Juicy J, has a title that makes me wonder what it’s like to party in Sri Lanka, and it opens with Juicy saying, “All lives matter.

Radio Ceylon, once a cultural powerhouse, captivated Indian listeners by defying a 1950s AIR ban on film songs. Its popular Hindi service and iconic shows like 'Binaca Geet Mala' forced AIR to compete ...

Over the past few weeks, Sunday Sounds has been exploring the ways in which the South Asian musical diaspora has made sense of its immigrant experience. We continue in that vein this week by talking ...