pranayamradio

This is one of the quieter entries in India's listing, at 484 of 565. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

Broadcasting in Malayalam from India, alongside 55 other stations there doing the same. Hindi is the country's commonest broadcast language in this directory, so this is the second shelf of a bilingual listing.

The Malayalam shelf on this site collects every station in the language regardless of where it transmits from, and the directory's Malayalam entries are concentrated in Bahrain. Reading the shelf next to this page is the quickest way to see how far the language's dial actually reaches.

pranayamradio streams at 96 kbps, under India's median of 128 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

The audio comes from stream.zeno.fm, and 108 other stations in India are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of India's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.