For the first two decades of my life, daily popular entertainment meant the radio and the radio meant Ameen Sayani, who died today at age 91 in Mumbai of a heart attack.
For the first two decades of my life, daily popular entertainment meant the radio and the radio meant Ameen Sayani. Even as an 11-year-old, when I first heard his iconic hit parade Binaca Geetmala, I knew that Sayani was a real human being in flesh and blood. However, the thought that he could just as well be radio waves strangely exhilarated me.
