![]() ![]() Those were the days when playschools did not exist. Wanted us to get me admitted to the Kendriya Vidyalaya there. It is surrounded by dense deodar and chir-pine forest. Mukteshwar is a nondescript hill station (utterly remote till the dawn of millennium 2000, now a well-known hill station) in Nainital district. When I was about five, my parents brought me and my sister to Mukteshwar from Almora, my birthplace. The popular service from All India Radio, which offers a variety of programmes ranging from film music, skits, short plays to interactive programmes, and targeting all age groups, is one of the memories associated with my childhood. It was a breather for a listener like me and others who had grown up listening to the Vividh Bharati besides watching Doordarshan. Meanwhile I searched the Net and found out that from April 2015 “VB” services had been launched on the FM platform to reach a wider audience in the Delhi-NCR region. In sheer disbelief, I continued listening to it for the next five minutes. How on earth could I hear the announcement of the famous programme of All India Radio’s (AIR) Vividh Bharati service? That was humaari agli peshkash hai Hawa Mahal (our next programme is Hawa Mahal). While changing the channels quirkily, finding no great filler up till the news would start, I listened to a voice that perplexed me. That was an evening when, having fiddled a lot with online news apps on my mobile phone, I switched on the radio at 8 p.m. ![]()
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