I am glad that I found this article. When I search for podcasts, I predominantly see listings from America and Britain. Unfortunately, I could not relate to mos

I am glad that I found this article. When I search for podcasts, I predominantly see listings from America and Britain. Unfortunately, I could not relate to most of them as I grew up in and lived in India. There is cultural/historical tight coupling with west except some of the BBC ones. In my opinion, the radio never took off in India. I see old Hollywood films and realise that in the pre-mobile internet era radio was a major way to be entertained and communicate while in the road. I can visualise family road trips (Playing empty roads .. west Virginia on FM) on a deserted free way. Same for a truck driver and amateurs having ham radio conversation. On the contrary India Railways have been the primary inter city commute. People talk to each other instead, as there are always many people around (Its kind of true everywhere in India :)). However, with cheap mobile internet, this is changing. co-passengers may get busy on their own smartphone even in a 24 hours long journey. I think we directly jumped from Television to moile internet never bothered abour radio. There was a rise of world space radio in mid 2000s but turned out to be costly. With no restriction on pirated mp3s from the internet and burning them on CD/ putting them in USB sticks and now side-loading on smart phones, we never bothered about or dependent on music on radio. This is one of the reason services like Flipkart flyte who offered paid mp3 download never succeeded. While countries like Norway switching off FM some of the cities in India are just coming up with their first channels, that to full of commercial. Its too late for radio I think. With Google installing free WIFIs in all railway stations and Reliance Jio giving dirt cheap 4G internet on mobile (as a result all cell companies matching their offers) having internet enabled phones will be soon a hous hold thing even in a poorest hoise. What we don't have is content. There are millions meaning less whatapp hoaxes being forwarded which most of the people see as interesting and true. Especially my father's generation refuse to disbelieve anything which is on the internet(Whatsapp/facebook). There is no sense of responsibility of the people who spread those messages. There is no good Indian radio or podcast online now , at least what I think is good. I think we need a "Serial moment" .