As Radio Ceylon turns 100, trace how war, music, and commercial radio shaped Asia’s most beloved broadcaster. A story of ...

By Tirthankar Mitra One of world’s oldest broadcasters, Radio Ceylon, has turned 100. It arrived decades before television when radio was a novelty and Radio Ceylon started officially broadcasting ...

In the early 1950s, beginning in 1952 to be precise, All India Radio stopped broadcasting Hindi film music. Getting your hands on international music wasn’t the easiest thing to do back in the 1950s, ...

What might Louis Mountbatten, the last viceroy of British India, have to do with the popularity of filmi music? Quite a bit, it turns out. During the Second World War, Mountbatten, then supreme Allied ...

Politics are normally wild in Ceylon. Last week they were even wilder than usual. The world’s only woman head of government, Mrs. Solomen West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, who has ruled Ceylon since ...

Radio Ceylon mostly managed to sidestep the treacherous political fault lines in the subcontinent and win listeners across languages and nationalities ...

The upcoming film Ceylon Cinema promises to be a real treat for all Mohammad Rafi fans. Shedding more light about the film’s storyline, director M Vineesh says, “This is a film that will bring back ...