Tune India Radio streams Bollywood and Hindi music free on Radio Shuffle, running 24 hours a day with a catalogue that stretches from golden-era classics of the 1950s to the latest Bollywood releases. It broadcasts out of Sydney, built specifically to give the Indian diaspora a daily connection to the music of home from thousands of miles away.
Built in Sydney for a Global Indian Audience
Tune India Radio launched on June 27, 2013, the creation of Rajesh Thakur, a broadcaster who brought more than 25 years of radio experience to the project, according to the station's own account of its founding. Thakur built it around a simple goal: connect Indians living abroad with their cultural heritage through music, language and conversation, rather than leaving the diaspora to rely on whatever fragments of Indian radio happened to reach them online. From its Sydney base, the station has grown to more than 300,000 listeners worldwide and over 120,000 in Australia alone, reaching audiences as far afield as the United States, Canada and Germany.
A Catalogue Spanning Seven Decades
The station's music rotation refreshes hourly and deliberately spans generations, mixing golden-era Bollywood classics from the 1950s with current chart hits and regional Indian selections. That range matters for a diaspora audience that typically spans multiple generations under one roof, a grandparent who grew up on 1960s playback singers and a grandchild who only knows the newest Mumbai releases, both finding something built for them on the same signal.
Half-Hourly News and Named Shows
Tune India Radio does not run on music alone. News bulletins air every half hour, and the schedule includes named programs such as Ahilya's Show, the Radio Classic Show and the Tune India Radio Classics Series, each hosted by Thakur or other presenters rather than left to an automated playlist. That live, hosted structure gives the station a sense of community radio built at diaspora scale, voices talking directly to an audience that shares a specific cultural reference point no matter which country they are actually calling in from.
Listen to Tune India Radio Free on Radio Shuffle
Tune in to Tune India Radio on Radio Shuffle, no account, no app, no fee. Press play and hear seven decades of Bollywood and Hindi music broadcast from Sydney for Indian listeners anywhere in the world.