This Bengaluru museum is a dream for radio enthusiasts

Uday Kalburgi turned the ground floor of his four-storey house in Bengaluru into a unique radio museum that has about 150 shortwave radios on display, and they all work!

No matter how many slim and efficient smart devices come along, Kalburgi will always be fascinated by radio.

“There was a time when the radio was such a focal point of family gatherings. Around these sets, stories were woven, musicians from far away sang to us and good and bad tidings from around the world,” Kalburgi told Hindustan Times in an interview.

Kalburgi, who lives in this house with his wife and two children, is running a radio enthusiast’s dream, regularly maintaining, restoring and repairing the contents of his home museum where entry is free of cost.