musical dinner..

went out to a local eatery for dinner today...that guy had a worldspace radio set and whatever station he had tuned it to, were playing some really classic old Hindi movie songs - the kind that's my favourite...even after finishing up the dinner, we lingered around for a couple of more songs...radio has its own charm and it has always been my favorite device for listening to music...back in college, I had a small pocket transistor (though I never used it as a portable device) that was always on in my hostel room...I used to wake up to Vande Mataram song every morning...the FM channels when I joined my job in Bangalore were superb...things are quite different in Hyderabad...all the channels are mercilessly local! in a so called cosmopolitan city as Hyderabad, one can expect at least one dedicated channel in Hindi...the language bias is pretty strong in this city...when I landed here more than 2 years ago, I was actually a little surprised at people's attitude...even at work I had this problem...when conversing in a group in which not everyone understands the local language, people were still using it...I'm pretty much unaffected by it now...I just royally ignore such people!