Though initially based in Nazi Germany, its headquarters were shifted to Japanese occupied Singapore following the course of the war in Southeast Asia.
[1][2][3] The station broadcast weekly news bulletins in English, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi, Pashto and Urdu, the languages spoken by most potential volunteers for the Indian Legion in Germany and the Indian National Army in southeast Asia.
[5][4][6] It beamed news bulletins in English, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi, Pashto, Gujarati and Urdu.
[7] In addition to news programming, the station broadcast messages from Bose and his Azad Hind Fauj (Indian National Army).
[8] The Azad Hind programme on the station that was initiated would start with Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor's recorded voice, "Ghazio mein by rahegi jab talak iman ki, Tab toh London tak chalegi regh hindustan ki" (transl.