Short waves begin to fade

Technology expands and engulfs the world around us, and amidst the new applications of radio waves, and the internet, the 'most powerful and cheapest medium in the wirld' is fading away.

As government spending patterns change, the rural poor in India are going to be left even more information poor. Already short wave radios are hard to find in the market. radio companies seem to have simply stopped manufacturing them.

Now with the impending curtailing of the Hindi services of the BBc, lakhs of listeners in the Hindi heartland will be deprived of their daily dose of creadible, reality based, BBC programming.
While Radio may survive in another form... but how will radio serve its primary purpose - empowering and enlightening the unwashed masses...?
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BBC HINDI ki Kahani