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Radio presenter Jay Deo Prasad

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Radio presenter Jay Deo Prasad

Access radio stations such as Planet FM 104.6 in Auckland enable various communities to broadcast programmes in their own languages. Planet FM broadcasts a wide range of programmes for speakers of Indian languages including Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Gujarati, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Bengali. Here, Jay Deo Prasad presents an Indian radio programme on Planet FM.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Indians – Retaining and transforming culture, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/1836/radio-presenter-jay-deo-prasad (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 July 2024.