Thandora FM

Thandora FM 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 one recorded open, Thandora FM 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.

Thandora FM broadcasts in Tamil from India. That is a minority language on the national dial, where Hindi leads, but not a small one: 161 stations in India in the directory carry Tamil, which is a substantial second listing inside the first.

Where else Tamil is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly Canada, Singapore and Sri Lanka. The shelf lists all 169 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

Its audio comes from stream-152.zeno.fm. One other station in India streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

Their site is thandorafm.in, a domain registered in India. Where a station's own address and its listed country agree, the entry is a little more trustworthy than one where they do not.