A 8 p.m. on a Wednesday in 1954, in a middle-class family in Chennai, a 12-year-old girl and her younger brother were glued to their radio set, waiting to listen to their favourite “Binaca Geet Mala”, ...

For four decades, his voice united millions of Indians for an hour every Wednesday as he brought Hindi cinema's greatest songs in an unparalleled radio broadcast. Illustration: Dominic ...