{"id":12015,"date":"2007-01-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/01\/06\/east-indian-south-africans-manage-their-own-hindi-radio-station\/"},"modified":"2007-01-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T12:00:00","slug":"east-indian-south-africans-manage-their-own-hindi-radio-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/01\/06\/east-indian-south-africans-manage-their-own-hindi-radio-station\/","title":{"rendered":"East Indian South Africans Manage Their Own Hindi Radio Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/features\/showfeatures.asp?slug=Radio+Hindvani+a+hit+with+Durban+Indians&#038;Id=1567\">www.ndtv.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, December 24, 2006: East Indians in Durban are delighted to have their very own 24-hour Hindi radio station.  From humble beginnings in 1998 when government guidelines only permitted the radio channel to operate for two months a year because it was labeled as a community channel to a full-blown recognized station in 2002, Radio Hindvani is a success story.  The news release explains, &#8220;Radio Hindvani is a home away from home for over 200,000 expatriates in Durban because it touches their heart.  Today, the station has 90 employees and interestingly all of them are volunteers.  It&#8217;s not just Hindi music that is on the menu Hindvani also serves programs on sports, Indian cooking, news and religion.&#8221;  Reena Bhoora with Radio Hindvani says, &#8221; I would say the golden oldies &#8211; they are my favorites as well. Apart from that we have some hip-hop and kawallis that the youngsters love.  We even play some Hindi songs composed in South Africa that we call chutney nagara songs.&#8221; Veer Singh, an Indian origin taxi driver, sums up the community sentiments about the station, &#8220;It offers a variety of in-depth knowledge about my culture, my tradition and where I come from.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.ndtv.com DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, December 24, 2006: East Indians in Durban are delighted to have their very own 24-hour Hindi,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}