The name, Indian State Broadcasting Service (begun on an experimental basis for two years in 1930), suggested Fielden, was rather bureaucratic. Actress Lillete Dubey’s was a YV romance; she met her husband, Ravi, a fellow participant, on a YV programme. (Sanjeev Verma / HT Photo)The AIR signature tune based on raag Shivaranjini was composed by Walter Kaufman, a director of music at AIR, a Czech Jew who had fled Europe fearing the Nazi onslaught. One of the most influential figures in Hindustani vocal music and the founder of the Indore Gharana, Ustad Amir Khan (second from right) at an AIR programme. Accessed by just 4,000 radio-sets in 1947, on June 3, AIR broadcasted Mountbatten, Jinnah and Nehru’s declarations on India’s partition.

Source: Hindustan Times August 06, 2016 16:52 UTC