Time : 2230 UTC 26th Sept (0400 IST, 27th Sept) to 0015 UTC 27th Sept (0545 IST, 27th Sept)
"Mahalaya" is a special two hour tranmission consisting of Sanskrit recitation & music orated by Late Shri.Birendra Krishna Bhadra. All India Radio has been broadcasting this program since early 1930s . Count down of Indian festival of Durga Puja starts from the day of Mahalaya.
During last couple of years following AIR channels were noted carrying special Mahalaya transmission :
SW
4760 - Port Blair
4820 - Kolkata
4835 - Gangtok
4880 - Lucknow
4895 - Kurseong
4940 - Guwahati
4965 - Shimla
MW
603 - Ajmer
621 - Patna A
648 - Indore A
657 - Kolkata A
666 - New Delhi B
675 - Chattarpur
711 - Siliguri
729 - Guwahati A
747 - Lucknow A
756 - Jagdalpur
774 - Shimla
801 - Jabalpur
810 - Rajkot A
819 - New Delhi A
846 - Ahmedabad A
909 - Gorakhpur
918 - Suratgarh
954 - Nazibabad
981 - Raipur
1008 - Kolkata B
1026 - Allahabad A
1044 - Mumbai A
1125 - Tezpur
1179 - Rewa
1242 - Varanasi
1260 - Ambikapur
1314 - Bhuj
1386 - Gwalior
1395 - Bikaner
1404 - Gangtok
1476 - Jaipur A
1584 - Mathura
1593 - Bhopal A
Private FM channel Big FM also carried this special txn on 92.7 MHz during 2009.
Related links :
Mahalaya: Invoking the Mother Goddess
A Once-a-Year Popular Radio Program
http://hinduism.about.com/cs/audiomusic/a/aa092003a.htm
Mahalaya - Birendrakrishna Bhadra
http://calcuttaglobalchat.net/calcuttablog/mahalaya/
Mahalaya - Audio & Video
http://www.durgapuja-images.com/2008/09/mahalaya-listen-download-online-watch.html
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