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Azad Hind Radio
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Azad Hind Radio was a radio service that was started in leadership of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in Germany in 1942 to unite Indians to fight for freedom. Though initially based in Germany, its headquarters were shifted to Singapore and later Rangoon following the course of the war in South East Asia. Following Netaji's departure to South East Asia, the German operations were continued by A.C.N. Nambiar, the head of the Indian Legion (in Germany) and later Ambassador of the Arzi Hukumate Azad Hind in Germany.
The radio broadcast weekly news bulletins in English, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi , Punjabi, Pashtu, and Urdu only as these were the languages of the people volunteering and serving the Indian Legion in Germany and the Indian National Army in Southeast Asia. The majority of the volunteers spoke these Indian languages only.
Azad Hind Radio served to counter the misinformation and blackout of politically sensitive information as done by the BBC. As a retort and response to the periodic misinformation on the conditions prevalent in British India, as broadcast by the BBC, Netaji had on the Azad Hind Radio referred the British Broadcasting Corporation as the "Bluff and Bluster Corporation."
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