Rad-eeyoh- the new age instrument

Thucidydes coined the term ‘History repeats itself’ and achieved literary immortality. The favourite phrase of grandparents (your father was just like you) schoolteachers (every year this class gets worse), and newspaper reporters discussing the latest political antics. Not to mention researchers cursing the non-reproducibility of some devious experiment ‘suggested’ by a long gone senior who airily tried it (once).
In the entertainment industry, what better example than the Radio? From big thrill to poor relative (versus television) back to hep device (now) it has come full circle. You can get attached to the radio in a way no television can understand. TV’s are inherently snootier..besides being non portable and in-your-face. Record players are nostalgicky but rather remote. CD and mp3 players may be small, but you know what you’re in for next- so they lose out on unpredictability. Really the only contender for the friendly neighbourhood dog is the radio. Non intrusive and eminently carryable-around, everything from music to radio doctor to love doctor to Chamarajpet Charles (must listen :>) is at your fingertips. Not to mention the rather more informative and innovative traffic jam busters and inverted movie reviews. You can go to sleep with the radio on, you can lug it around sneakily to potentially boring events, infact with the boom in RJing, its even a lucrative part time job option. Like so many trends that come back inexplicably, radio’s suddenly ‘in’. And I’m all for it!