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Laughter Therapy - 12 March 2026 - The Free Punjabi Podcast That Turns Every Thursday Into a Celebration

Thursday mornings carry a particular energy — the week has done most of its work and the weekend is now close enough to feel real. On Radio Haanji 1674 AM, that Thursday feeling is met with exactly the right soundtrack: a fresh episode of Laughter Therapy, hosted by Ranjodh Singh, arriving with the warmth and laughter that Melbourne's Punjabi community has come to rely on as a genuine part of their morning.

Thursday Morning With Ranjodh Singh — A Show That Feels Like Sitting With Family

Ranjodh Singh has built a reputation on Radio Haanji 1674 AM as one of the most naturally gifted community hosts in Australian Punjabi broadcasting. What he brings to Laughter Therapy is not a performance — it is a genuine extension of who he is. He listens to his callers, he creates space for the laughter to arrive on its own terms and he holds the show together with a warmth that listeners across Melbourne recognise and trust.

Thursday episodes carry a slightly different flavour from the rest of the week. The community knows the weekend is close, and that energy comes through in the calls — there is an extra looseness, a readiness to laugh and a willingness to linger a little longer in the moment. Ranjodh Singh channels that perfectly, creating the kind of hour that listeners are reluctant to switch off even when the day is already calling them forward.

For anyone exploring what Radio Haanji has to offer, Laughter Therapy sits naturally alongside thought-provoking programmes like The Insight Report and the daily current affairs analysis of Indian Updates — programmes that together show the full range of what community broadcasting in Melbourne can be. But on Thursday mornings, laughter has the stage, and nobody holds that stage quite like Ranjodh Singh.

Young Callers, Pure Joy — How the Children Carry the First Half

The first segment of Laughter Therapy belongs entirely to the children, and Thursday is as fine a day as any to be reminded why that decision is one of the best this show has ever made. Young callers from across Melbourne's Punjabi community ring in live, bringing their chutkule, bujaratan and bolian to a microphone that treats them as the stars they genuinely are.

There is a particular quality to the way children share chutkule on this show. They are not performing for an audience — they are sharing something they find funny, something they picked up at home or at school or from a grandparent who taught it to them, and that sincerity is what makes the moment land every single time. A child's bujaratan — delivered with complete conviction that the riddle is somehow both obvious and unsolvable — is one of the most reliably joyful things in community radio.

This segment is also quietly doing something significant for the Punjabi community in Australia. Children growing up here are navigating two cultural worlds simultaneously, and every time a young caller shares a chutkula or a bolian on Laughter Therapy, they are affirming that their Punjabi identity is not something to be kept at home — it is something to be celebrated, shared and amplified. As a Punjabi kids show in Australia, this programme creates cultural belonging through the simplest and most powerful mea