Gopal Sharma
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- Gopal Sharma was also the name of a former Indian cricketer
Gopal Sharma was a popular radio announcer on the Hindi Service of Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia. Sharma presented radio programs containing the latest Hindi film music - he was popular with the masses in India. Sharma belonged to a select band of Indian announcers recruited by Radio Ceylon who played a vital role in catapulting the station as the 'King of Airwaves' in South Asia.
Millions of listeners in the Indian sub-continent tuned in to Gopal Sharma's radio programs over Radio Ceylon in the 1950s and 1960s.
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- Radio Ceylon
- List of Hindi broadcasters of Radio Ceylon
- SLBC-creating new waves of history
- Eighty Years of Broadcasting in Sri Lanka