Click to play videoBandipore (Line of Control): Abdul Kabir Katana simply can't do without his radio. And when his favourite show is on, it's the closest that this 80-year-old, living in a hamlet on the Line of Control (LoC), can get to his friends and family across the border.
"Through Vaadi Ki Awaaz, we come to know about each other," says he.
For 40 years, Vaadi Ki Awaaz has been on air, every night, broadcasting to both families living in Indian and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir -- bridging divides and reuniting families, if only for a while.
People on both sides send letters to the station, which are then read out on air.
The programme was devised originally for families torn apart by partition, desperate to reach out.
Says a radio jockey, Zaffar, "These people are still connected to the soil here. People ask if shikaras (Kashmiri boats) still sail on the Dal Lake and if the Chesmashahi waters are sweet."
Adds another radio jockey, Aruna, "Through their letters, they cross the borders and come to each other."
As the name suggests, Vaadi ki Awaaz wafts across the mountains to reach to Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir.
The programme acts as a great emotion connect between the two people of the two Kashmirs.
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