Programs

Kahani Ki Gathariya

The art of storytelling never loses its power to hold an audience captive. Good stories, compelling stories, draw audiences into narratives of love, power, anger, joy, kinship, loyalty, and much more.

Kahani Ki Gathariya was started as an experiment in storytelling, and almost immediately grew into one of the most popular programs in our schedule.

The thrice-a-week program (Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 am) consists of a story (recorded or read live) followed by a session of live telephony with listeners enthusiastically answering questions about the story, giving feedback, and generally participating as if they are collected around a campfire.

March 25, 2020 | 114 words | #Programs, #Employment

Chahat Chowk

Our program Chahat Chowk is the only live, phone-in radio program focussing on sexual and reproductive health currently on air, whether in public, private or community radio

In 2013, under a partnership with Commonwealth Of Learning, Gurgaon Ki Awaaz launched a health series built as a Community Learning Program. The result, Chahat Chowk, is a weekly program focused on the sexual and reproductive health of couples. Produced along with stakeholders such as Civil Hospital, Gurgaon, St. Stephens Hospital, Gurgaon, community men and women, and partner NGOs, the program features a doctor in the studio to answer questions from listeners in a Live program format.

March 25, 2020 | 131 words | #Programs, #Employment, #Featured

Kanoon Ki Baat

The program features lawyers deputed by the Chief Judicial Magistrate cum Secretary District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) to go on air for a 30 to 45-minute live phone-in program on specific issues in law. One week it could be the legal provisions for the safety of women, the next the legal provisions for the rights of labour.

March 25, 2020 | 96 words | #Programs, #Mental Health

Kavyalaya

There is a poet in all of us. We have drivers who write poetry in their spare time, shopkeepers who keep a diary to pen their thoughts when there is a lull in business. Radio provides these amateur poets a platform in the program Kavyalaya. In addition, we also bring our listeners some of the finest poetry by India’s big names in Hindi poetry.

March 25, 2020 | 64 words | #Programs, #Mental Health

Saara Aasmaan Hamara

Migration is an important focus area for Gurgaon Ki Awaaz as one of our key target audiences is the community of internal migrants living and working in Gurgaon.

Saara Aasmaan Hamara has been part of our program repertoire since inception. The series has featured first person narratives by people from our community telling their journey from their village to Gurgaon and their experiences along the way.

In 2016, in partnership with UNESCO’s Social and Human Sciences Division, Gurgaon Ki Awaaz started producing Saara Aasmaan Hamara as a series focusing on specific aspects of migration. In Season 1, we focused on positive narratives of migration. In Season 2, we focused on Music and Migration, in partnerhip with Archive and Resource Centre for Ethnomusicology, and in Season 3, we focused on the tradition of the Sacred Secular in various communities across India, again in partnership with Archive and Resource Centre for Ethnomusicology.

March 25, 2020 | 280 words | #Campaigns, #Mental Health

Swasth Gurgaon

Swasth Gurgaon was launched in partnership with St Stephens Hospital, Gurugram as a weekly health program designed as a conversation with doctors across specialties.

The program continues as a regular weekly program with doctors from both the public and private hospitals network and bring to our listeners answers to some of the most fundamental questions that affect our health.

A Campaign Organ Donation with Parashar Foundation

Gurgaon Ki Awaaz started a partnership in 2019 with ORGAN India/Parashar Foundation, for a campaign on organ donation awareness with a radio show on Organ, Tissue & Body Donation via the programme “Jeevan – Ek Anmol Uphaar.’

March 25, 2020 | 178 words | #Health, #Partnerships, #Mental Health, #Featured, #Organ Donation, #Parashar Foundation

Udaan

Udaan, is a weekly Live Phone-In show in partnership with counselor Satish Kaushik which focuses on mental health issues among our audience. The program features Mr Kaushik and a counselor taking on a range of issues each week.

The program airs every Monday at 10.30 am. Phone lines are open.

Udaan: The Covid response supported by Samit Enterprises

As a key part of our Covid-19 campaign, Udaan now airs every Monday and Thursday at 1.30 pm during which phone lines are open and counselors Satish Kaushik and Dr Pinky Goswami help listeners with advice and coping strategies for the stresses caused by the extended Covid-19 lockdown. Most of our listeners are migrants, who are separated from their families, in danger of losing their jobs, and often even struggling to find access to food distribution points. In addition to connecting them with helplines and groups distributing food and other essentials, we believe that having a trained mental health professional talk to them can calm their fears and help them deal with the lockdown with less panic.

March 25, 2020 | 175 words | #Programs, #Mental Health