Kashmir Floods: Don’t listen to the critics, Radio did a commendable job

Courtesy: kashmirreader.com

Sunday, 26 October 2014 

By Altaf Khan

As an ardent listener of radio, one would often be tempted to ask luminaries in media about its relevance in an era of cable channels and social networking sites. I got my answers in times of the flood. The times when the low tension wires, telephone and TV cables were used to ferry people across from one place to another laid bare what radio can do.

When all of us were all at sea seeing how deadly those beautiful life giving waters of the Jhelum had turned into, when TV sets were rammed up in the upper storeys along with other household belongings and laptops had to bear an indefinite blackout for the want of electricity and facebook forgot most Kashmiri faces for weeks, it was Radio which was connecting all of us. Director Radio Kashmir Srinagar, Rukhsana Jabeen, Director CBS Shamshad Kralwari along with the battery of stalwarts in broadcasting like Syed Humayun Kaisar and Talha Jehangir deserve all the accolades that have come their way post floods.

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