First appeared in www.scroll.in on December 12, 2015. Radio in India has gone through a long journey, its influence waxing and waning over the decades. Amateur attempts at broadcasting began in the country in the 1920s. But it was on July 23, 1927 that organised broadcasting kicked off with the inauguration of the first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company in Bombay. Lionel Fielden, a senior BBC producer, took over as Controller of Broadcasting on August 30, 1935, and