Radika (Suriname)
Surinamese radio and television station
Radika, full name Radio Dihaat Ki Awaaz, (literally "Voice of the District), is a Surinamese media company. It was founded as a radio station in 1962. The military set the station on fire in 1982, thus suspending operations until 1990. Since then it provided both radio and television (Radika TV). In July 2018, Radika was rented to influential politicians for two years. At the end of the contract, it was discovered that Radika's assets disappeared, causing it to cease transmission on July 1, 2020.
Target
The broadcasts are in both Dutch and Sarnami Hindustani and cater to the Hindustani community. The station is aligned to the Progressive Reform Party, which has a large Hindustani base.
History
Radio Radika opened on 9 September 1962 under Shew Shawh Radhakishun, an engineer working at mining company Billiton, and his brother and rich businessman Harry Sharuh Radhakishun. After Shew died in 1971 at the age of 47, his nephew Edith Radhakishun and Shews's wife Roshnie Ramlakhan took over.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Radika (Suriname)” is surinamese radio and television station. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Radika, Suriname and Surinamese, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “surinamese radio and television station” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55185174. Authority coordinates are 5.797, -55.186. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1962, 1982, 1990 and 2018.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Radika (Suriname)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.