A UP man creates a unique museum with 1500 old radio sets
The British pop group The Buggles recorded the wildly famous song “Video Killed the Radio Star” in the early 1980s. The song discussed how fresh technical advancements herald the impending demise of outdated technologies. We cannot dispute that the majority of us no longer have working radios in our homes, and we can all relate to this. iPods and Bluetooth speakers have replaced such devices.
Ram Singh Bouddh, a 67-year-old resident of Uttar Pradesh, is still clinging to the past. Ram Singh’s first passion is still radio, despite the fact that it has been rendered obsolete for decades. So much so that the Gajraula resident constructed a personal museum out of more than 1,500 vintage radio receivers. Ram Singh, a resident of Mohalla Naipura, resigned in 2016 from his role as Senior Superintendent in the Department of the Uttar Pradesh Warehousing Corporation. After that, he served as the Consumer Court’s Secretary for five years.
He developed a childhood infatuation with radio that lasted his whole life. He continued to listen to the radio even while he was working. A few years before retiring, he made the decision to start his own museum and gather as many different types of radio equipment as he could. In 2010, he began working on it.
More than 1500 radio receivers are currently housed in his own museum on the second floor of Siddharth Inter College in Naipura. Ram Singh Bouddh thinks he is the owner of the most radios in the country. His 1900 radio is the oldest one he has. In order to have his name included in the Guinness Book of World Records, he is now making an effort.
When a ‘talking cabinet’ was introduced to Ram Singh’s hamlet in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, in the middle of the 1960s, he became enthralled with radio. The villagers were all fascinated by the radio when they first saw it, but young Ram Singh saw something more in it. His relationship with the radio quickly became a part of his life, but it now obviously looks loose decades later.
