Does anybody remember tube radio?
They were wooden miracles to a little boy.
I could lean back and rest my elbow
On the veneer wood surface and enjoy.
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We shunned all classical, whether Hindustani or Karnatic. As children, we waited for film music. Slowly, we graduated to ghazals, instrumental..and then into classical
" Does anybody remember tube radio? " I do. But in India, they never played jazz or any western. They just played Yesudas, Mukesh, Md Rafi, Lata, MS Subbulakshmi, Ghulam Ali, Kishori Amonkar, Tyagaraja Bhagawatar…
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