Podcasts Culture Soundings The Congress Radio Calling: Underground Broadcasts During the Quit India Movement

The Congress Radio Calling: Underground Broadcasts During the Quit India Movement

Published: March 21, 2014, 1:17 a.m.

In Egypt, in Iran, and in Tunisia, we've heard a lot about the so-called Twitter and Facebook revolutions. But what about the radio revolution? Working from archives in New Delhi and London, Neel Thakkar resurrects the forgotten story of the Congress Radio -- the secret, underground radio station which, during the Quit India movement of 1942, helped keep the Indian nationalist movement alive during some of its darkest days.\n\nThis project was funded by a Braden Grant from Stanford Storytelling Project. More info on the Braden Grant here:\nhttp://web.stanford.edu/group/storytelling/cgi-bin/joomla/index.php/grants.html\n\nProducer: Neel Thakkar\nFeaturing: Usha Mehta, C.K. Narayanswami, K.A. Abbas, Anant Kanekar, and J.N. Sahini\nSpecial thanks: Kevin Greenbank at the Cambridge Centre for South Asia, and Kamlesh and Naina Ramani\nImage via wikimedia