Source: PagalGuy.com | by Abhijit Bhaduri in Odds and Ends
09 October '13
09 October '13
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The radio was an important fixture during my grandfather's life. Returning from London after studying medicine, he brought back a radio for my grandma. She acknowledged the gift by crafting an elaborately embroidered cover for the radio. For all practical purposes, it was my grandfather's radio.
He was All India Radio's most faithful listener ever. He would listen to Hindi, English and Bengali news in the mornings. The newspaper vendor would soon throw two rolls of newspapers that on our doorstep. Sanskrit news would start as he settled down to read the newspapers. In the evening he would listen to the news on his rocking chair one last time before sleeping.
For him, listening to the news was an active process. Stopping everything else, he would sit down on a chair, look at the radio and solemnly hear the news. Having experienced the horrors of the partition, he did not want to be caught unawares ever again.
Growing up, the radio was no longer the prime news provider for us. Dad would read the newspaper while my mother listened to the songs played on.................
The radio was an important fixture during my grandfather's life. Returning from London after studying medicine, he brought back a radio for my grandma. She acknowledged the gift by crafting an elaborately embroidered cover for the radio. For all practical purposes, it was my grandfather's radio.
He was All India Radio's most faithful listener ever. He would listen to Hindi, English and Bengali news in the mornings. The newspaper vendor would soon throw two rolls of newspapers that on our doorstep. Sanskrit news would start as he settled down to read the newspapers. In the evening he would listen to the news on his rocking chair one last time before sleeping.
For him, listening to the news was an active process. Stopping everything else, he would sit down on a chair, look at the radio and solemnly hear the news. Having experienced the horrors of the partition, he did not want to be caught unawares ever again.
Growing up, the radio was no longer the prime news provider for us. Dad would read the newspaper while my mother listened to the songs played on.................
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