Marconian gift
Radio, (ra-di-o) n. Transmission of programs for the public by radio broadcast.
a) An apparatus used to transmit radio signals; a transmitter.
b) An apparatus used to receive radio signals; a receiver.
c) A complex of equipment capable of transmitting and receiving radio signals.
Dictionary may explain radio as a complex of equipment but it is that primitive device which mothered all the CD players, MP3 players, ipods, nanos and so on and so forth. Though I was born in the era when TV ruled the earth, I still remember my childhood age where my day begins with radio and grows with radio (I can't say it ended with radio; blame me for watching all those evening TV programmes), and each and every senior whom I come across have a transistor close to their right ear listening to a film song or the one day commentary.
More than a entertainer it was rather a time piece for me. When I get up from my bed, it will be the regional news in Aakaashavanni by Saroj Narayan Swami, when I take bath it will be the b'day and anniversary wishes time in FM and when I leave to school it will be the songs parade in Vividhbarathi. Whoa! what a timekeeper. Such a fascinating device has it been, it thickened my technical bondage towards it when I was a inplant trainee in All India radio during my undergrad.
Nowadays I hardly hear radio. As everyone feels I also ceded myself to the MP3 and CD culture and lost the candied pleasure of listening to radio. While I write this I have a radio player running at the background playing songs from 80s and 90s making me guess what could the next song be. Hmm...I guess therefore here I am writing this!
a) An apparatus used to transmit radio signals; a transmitter.
b) An apparatus used to receive radio signals; a receiver.
c) A complex of equipment capable of transmitting and receiving radio signals.
Dictionary may explain radio as a complex of equipment but it is that primitive device which mothered all the CD players, MP3 players, ipods, nanos and so on and so forth. Though I was born in the era when TV ruled the earth, I still remember my childhood age where my day begins with radio and grows with radio (I can't say it ended with radio; blame me for watching all those evening TV programmes), and each and every senior whom I come across have a transistor close to their right ear listening to a film song or the one day commentary.
More than a entertainer it was rather a time piece for me. When I get up from my bed, it will be the regional news in Aakaashavanni by Saroj Narayan Swami, when I take bath it will be the b'day and anniversary wishes time in FM and when I leave to school it will be the songs parade in Vividhbarathi. Whoa! what a timekeeper. Such a fascinating device has it been, it thickened my technical bondage towards it when I was a inplant trainee in All India radio during my undergrad.
Nowadays I hardly hear radio. As everyone feels I also ceded myself to the MP3 and CD culture and lost the candied pleasure of listening to radio. While I write this I have a radio player running at the background playing songs from 80s and 90s making me guess what could the next song be. Hmm...I guess therefore here I am writing this!
posted by Vish at 8:45 PM
1 Comments:
Fairly good "flash back"of your childhood&schooldays.Still radio is
a good entertainer,without disturbing one's routine.Radio still has its charm&attraction.Hope your blog will stimulate many to listn to radio,the"Marconian gift" to the humanity!
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