I'm glad to see Jyoti and company doing wel by each passing day. you girls and guys have done something which Delhi/Mumbai youths had never thought off,smiles. Keep up the good work. TOI has done one more story on Jyoti and her radio http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ludhiana/Disabilitys-just-a-word-for-her/articleshow/47727709.cms
But this 23-year-old, gritty Ludhiana girl had something else up her sleeve an online, community radio station. Meet Jyoti Malik, a visually-impaired resident of Ludhiana who manages the online station called 'Radio Udaan'. Asked about how she went about starting the radio station, Jyoti comes up with a simple explanation: "I started using social-networking sites to meet people who too were suffering from visual impairment. I managed to create a huge group of visually-impaired youngsters and we all got close, so close that we are now like a second family to each other." Jyoti is a programme manager at the station and she also doubles up as a radio jockey. "Initially, we used to share knowledge and used to discuss our problems," she says. "I had once participated in a community radio show of a Pakistani radio jockey who was also visually impaired. So, I discussed the same idea with my friends and everyone liked it. Then we worked on the idea and launched our online community radio on February 2, 2014." On Radio-Udaan, whose online link is www.radioudaan.com, the RJs conduct debates, entertainment programmes, musical shows and interviews. At present, youngsters from Delhi, Hydrabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Gujrat, and even Pakistan and West Indies are associated with them. "Our shows are aired from 7pm to 11pm. The repeat telecast is on the next day, from 2pm to 6pm. We play songs during the remaining time," she says. -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
