All India Radio

🎶 Why AIR Banned Harmonium in 1940?

🎼 A Ban Too Bizarre to Believe (By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo*) Why would a musical instrument—beloved, popular and proudly Indian-made—be…

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Bel Tai Madal—Men Behind It

The genre of Leela poetry in Kashmiri literature is said to have evolved from ``Vachun’’ and we notice a boost…

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Lassa Kaul– Martyred in 1990, Abandoned in 2020!

(By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo)* February 13, 1990: Director Doordarshan Kendra Srinagar, Lassa Kaul is shot dead by terrorists who considered…

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J N Zutshi—the first Director General of Radio Kashmir

J N Zutshi is credited to have set up two Radio Stations in Jammu and Kashmir---first at Jammu on December…

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Kashmir Rechords remembers Nehru through rare pictures

( By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s birthday falls on November 14 and the day is every year celebrated…

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