Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

"Akashvani" (English) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, it was formerly known as The Indian Listener. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them, take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in English, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it used to published by All India Radio, New Delhi. From 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later, The Indian listener became "Akashvani" (English ) w.e.f. January 5, 1958. It was made fortnightly journal again w.e.f July 1,1983. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: AKASHVANI LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE, MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 31 MARCH, 1968 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly NUMBER OF PAGES: 80 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XXXIII, No.14 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED (PAGE NOS): 12-80 ARTICLE: 1. Irony 2. On Giving Up Smoking 3. Metals And Ceramics As Sources Of Atomic Heat 4. Michael Madhusudan 5. Marriage Customs AUTHOR: 1. Prof. G. Sankaranarayana Iyer 2. K. S. V. Raman 3. Dr. Brahma Prakash, 4. Dr. S.P. Sen Gupta 5. Mrs. Lakshmi Sundaram KEYWORDS : 1.An effective method, another kind, Shakespeare's verbal irony, Gulliver’s Travels’, 2.Edmund Burke Indisputable facts, only two situations 3.Major attraction, the problems, ‘cyrus’ and ‘zerlina’, boiling water reactors, impressive economies 4.New note in literature, miltonic in grandeur, ablest dramatist 5.Tears and smiles Prasar Bharati Archives has the copyright in all matters published in this “AKASHVANI” and other AIR journals. For reproduction previous permission is essential.