Programs

Love You Zindagi

Love You Zindagi is a radio series that looks at the health of body and mind, despite Covid-19 and beyond Covid-19. The program is a collaboration between Gurgaon Ki Awaaz Samudayik Radio and Rajbala Foundation.

From health to education to mental well-being to our cultural heritage, we will cover a range of topics that are being overlooked because of the global, single-minded focus on Covid-19.

The underlying focus is on the joy that we should work towards in our lives.

June 8, 2020 | 527 words | #Programs, #Health, #Partnerships, #Mental Health

Sab Khairiyat Hai Na

Sab Khairiyat Hai Na (Is all well with you?) is a series of conversations over the phone with a motley group of our listeners who share their experiences of being caught in the Covid-19 storm.

People share their stories of surviving the first, suddenly announced, unplanned lockdown. The wait for food, for salaries, the loss of work, the fear of the virus, of the police, of the future.

People talk of how they finally made their way back home. What they hope for in the future. Those who stayed behind share their stories of surviving the virus and forever being outsiders in a city that many have made their home for over a decade.

June 8, 2020 | 169 words | #Programs, #Migration, #Covid 19

Suraksha Ki Kaksha, Divya Didi Ke Saath

Suraksha Ki Kaksha Divya Didi Ke Saath is a radio series on child safety.

The focus is on educating children about their rights, making them aware about their agency, empowering them to trust their inner voices. After setting the tone, Divya introduces them to the concept of safety, fear, safe spaces within our homes, our communities. The idea is that after a couple of sessions, children will start sharing their concerns.

May 27, 2020 | 230 words | #Programs, #Child Safety, #Mental Health

Addressing the psycho-social impact of Covid-19 through on-air counseling

As India completes nearly one month of an enforced lockdown, it has become evident that the stresses of losing livelihoods, and incomes, forced isolation and cramped family quarters, is leading to monumental psycho-social symptoms among people, especially the poor, which is also reflected in the huge spike in domestic violence and child abuse complaints in one month alone.

To provide a support system to our listeners at this time of stress, Gurgaon Ki Awaaz, in partnership with Rajbala Foundation, takes its on-going Udaan series, and turns its lens on counseling during the Covid-19 lockdown.

April 18, 2020 | 162 words | #Campaigns, #Programs, #Covid 19

Aakhir Kab Tak

March 29, 2020 | 125 words | #Programs, #Featured

Bhasha Mein Ling Bhed

Feminist activist, storyteller, poet and advertising professional Saumya Baijal unpacks how we use language in this program series.

Our everyday language is deeply sexist. In both use of general words, and the sentences we often say that stem from deep patriarchal though. For eg. ‘Shaadi ho nahin rahi’ takes away the agency of choice from the woman the conversation is being had about vs ‘Shaadi kar nahin rahi’ that reaffirms that agency. Similarly, when a woman/girl does something courageous she is looked at as the son of the home, with sentences like ‘yeh toh mera beta hai’, which automatically insinuate that only men can be courageous. So we did an 8 episode series, questioning words, language that we use and listen to everyday. In our own families and in popular culture.

March 30, 2020 | 131 words | #Programs, #Gender

Apni Pasand

Music is the key to building an engaging radio station. The music on Gurgaon Ki Awaaz is its identity. A unique identity, that doesn’t let the station be confused with any of the 11 other FM stations broadcasting in Delhi-NCR. When listeners tune in, they invariably listen to folk music – Haryanvi raginis being sung by local mandalis, folk music in Bhojpuri, Maithili, Garhwali, Kumaoni, Rajasthani and many dialects, bhajans by village women and songs by schoolchildren. So unique is this sound, so rooted to the land and collective community memory, that there has been an instant connect with the station. Not one listener asks for Hindi film music. Among many of our listeners we are known as the “ragini-wala channel”.

March 25, 2020 | 179 words | #Programs, #Employment

Bhakti Dhara

Our early morning spiritual music segment, from 4 am to 7 am features a range of sacred music from Shiva, Rama, Krishna, Ganapati Bhajans to Sikh Gurbani to Sufi music.

March 25, 2020 | 30 words | #Programs, #Employment

Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi

Over 60 per cent of Gurgaon Ki Awaaz’s listeners are drivers. They make for a dedicated audience. Most have an FM in their car, they don’t really step away from their vehicle, and the radio is a great way for them to be entertained and informed as they go about their work of picking and dropping people.

Some drivers even have lunch together in groups, with Gurgaon Ki Awaaz playing on the radio.

March 25, 2020 | 145 words | #Programs, #Employment

Hamara Samvidhaan

In 2015, in partnership with the NGO We The People, in collaboration with Ideosync Media Combine, and with support from UN Democracy Fund, we launched the series Hamara Samvidhaan, which unpacks the values outlined in the Preamble to the Indian Constitution.

The 13-part series starts with understanding the value of a constitution for a country as diverse as India. And then over the next 12 episodes unpacks each phrase, each word of the Preamble to the Indian Constitution to understand how the values articulated in the Preamble play out in our own personal lives.

March 25, 2020 | 94 words | #Programs, #Employment