He earned the Guinness World Record for the most radios collected — 1,257. And he now has 1,400 radios in his collection, models from the 1920s to year 2000. Take a look at the story of Ram Singh Bough, his 10-year passion, and his desire to establish a museum for his collection that would hopefully help young people acquaint themselves with the technology that was popular before the advent of smartphones.
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00:00I have been doing this for the last 10 years and I have been doing it continuously.
00:20It is such a hobby that it doesn't let me stop.
00:24A person can collect only when his body, mind and wealth are spent.
00:42People live with their mobile phones.
00:44People didn't live without them.
00:46I have seen people going to their relatives in the fields.
00:51They used to keep their radios with them.
00:53After 1970, the size of the radios had become very small.
00:58There was no television at that time.
01:01Television started after 1980.
01:03People used to keep their radios in their pockets and listen to the cricket commentary.
01:07People used to take their radios to their offices and listen to the radio commentary.
01:13Then I thought that radio is a very important part of our lives.
01:18If we don't collect it, what will we say to the future generation?
01:24Then I decided to collect it.
01:29There are so many newspapers.
01:31Everyone has called me the Radioman of India.
01:33But since the Guinness Book of World Records was recorded on me, I have become the World Radioman.
01:37I am very happy that I have the largest number of radios in the world.
01:43I am the first person in the world with a population of 8 billion.
01:48From 1920 to 1965, I used to have tube radios.
01:55They were called tube radios or valve radios.
01:58They used to run on electricity.
02:00They used to heat up for 3-4 minutes.
02:02After that, they used to hold the vape.
02:05I have 100 tube radios.
02:08After 1965, when Solid State was invented,
02:13the tube radios were removed.
02:18The size of the tube radios used to be very big.
02:21Due to Solid State, the size of the tube radios became small.
02:25The tube radios became cheaper.
02:26And the number of tube radios increased.
02:29I have decided that Sanghalaya should be good.
02:32It is very close to Delhi.
02:33It is only 100 km away from Delhi.
02:35A lot of people will come and see.
02:38Our children, the younger generation,
02:41will be able to understand and watch the radio.
02:44Otherwise, if people like us don't make an effort,
02:47then in the future,
02:50we will be able to see the radio on the internet or in books.
02:54And it will be lost.
02:55There is a tape recorder and a spillover.
02:59It is a two-in-one system.