Akashvani from Trinidad

Last few years I have rediscovered the Radio.However unlike the sturdy two band or three band radio of old, the radio now is available to me on my mobile phone and my desk Top PC.The range and scope of Radio has greatly improved.I can listen to internet radio streams of various Radio stations.I have now for several years followed Grand stand Commentary of Cricket Matchesfrom Australia's ABC radio, the Test Match special of the BBC on Five live cricket extra for all of England's home matches,lot of New Zealand cricket on Talk Sport and incredibly listened to the last time South Africa played in Pakistan on radio Pakistan.However, Akashvani as in All India Radio remains largely internet unfriendly and therefore though I remember Sushil Doshi and Anant Setalvad who brought the 1979-80 India-Australia live to millions of Indian homes, I hardly remember many Indian commentators of present day.Brian Waddle from New Zealand, Jonathan Agnew from England,Fazeer Mohammed from Trinidad,Neil Manthorp from South Africa, Glenn Mitchell and Jim Maxwell from Australia are more a part of my consciousness.

And beyond cricket there is Five Live's coverage of Wimbledon and extensive news and views.Listening to radio commentary conects you to the place the way TV commentary does not these days.Television commentators are hardly local and Walsh in South Africa or Tony Greig in a sri lanka Pakistan series stick out like aliens on earth.The SABC commentators including Aslam Khota and Natalie Germanos speak with enthusiasm and partisan feeling but are good to the ear especially playing in the background.
The mobile phone has brought back Indian Radio stations to our consciousness including the much maligned All India Radio.The absence of FM radio on Blackberry made me chose Sony Ericsson's Experia Arc and through the Android Market, I downloaded Tune in Radio app.Now I can follow SABC 200fm on the move and listen to Indian music from New Zealand and yes a radio station called Akashvani from Trinidad.
Radio experience has widened and the serendiptous find of a cricket match being covered in Tamil and Gujarati on Short wave radio has been replaced by joys of stumbling on new radio stations on the net.And the reception is much better.