Radio Ishara

Radio Ishara sits in the tail of India's 565 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

With two recorded opens, Radio Ishara sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in India's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

The station's language is Hindi, the commonest of the six the directory records for India. Language is one of the two axes this site indexes on, and the Hindi shelf collects these stations across every country that carries them.

The encode is 192 kbps against a country median of 128. Comfortably above the middle of India's listing without being one of its outliers.

Its audio comes straight from a8.asurahosting.com:7030, an address unique to this entry in India's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.

Their site is a8.asurahosting.com:7030, on the .com:7030 domain. The newer top level domains carry no location information at all, so nothing about the address confirms or contradicts what the directory records.