{"id":39824,"date":"2019-09-25T21:42:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T01:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=39824"},"modified":"2019-09-25T21:42:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T01:42:16","slug":"the-radio-man-of-kumartuli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/the-radio-man-of-kumartuli\/","title":{"rendered":"The radio man of Kumartuli"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_39825\" style=\"width: 830px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/radio6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39825\" class=\"wp-image-39825 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/radio6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/radio6.jpg 820w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/radio6-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/radio6-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/radio6-624x402.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Set against this unlikely backdrop, Amit Ranjan Karmakar&#8217;s little shop is easy to miss. In his mid-60s, the &#8216;radio man&#8217; of Kumartuli sits surrounded by radio sets of all sizes and vintages. (Express photo: Shashi Ghosh)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, <a href=\"https:\/\/swradiogram.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kim Elliott<\/a>, who shares a link to this short but fantastic photo pdoc about Kumartuli&#8217;s radio man, Amit Ranjan Karmakar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/photos\/india-news\/meet-amit-ranjan-karmakar-the-radio-man-of-kumartuli-6001972\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view at The Indian Express.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Kim Elliott, who shares a link to this short but fantastic photo pdoc about Kumartuli&#8217;s radio man, Amit Ranjan Karmakar. Click here to view at The Indian Express.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,26],"tags":[1664,4094,4547,4081,8026],"class_list":["post-39824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radios","tag-kim-elliott","tag-nostalgia","tag-radio-repair","tag-radios","tag-the-indian-express"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-amk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53558,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/radio-waves-fast-radio-bursts-czechia-drm-am-trial-kumartuli-radio-shop-and-ekho-moskvy-off-air\/","url_meta":{"origin":39824,"position":0},"title":"Radio Waves: Fast Radio Bursts, Czechia DRM AM Trial, Kumartuli Radio Shop, and Ekho Moskvy Off Air","author":"Thomas","date":"July 27, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Radio Waves:\u00a0 Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Welcome to the\u00a0SWLing Post\u2019s Radio Waves, a collection of links to interesting stories making waves in the world of radio.\u00a0Enjoy! 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