Chaitra Krushna Saptami
Chennai: Pained at the "anti-Hindu propaganda" by some TV channels and "defaming of the religion" by the film industry, Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati has decided to launch a channel ‘Shankara TV’ to spread Hinduism.
According to Math sources, the religious channel will be launched simultaneously in Tamil, Kannada and Telugu in 20 days and will be run by one of the trusts of the ancient Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam.
The launch of ‘Shankara TV’ comes at a time when Jayendra Saraswati and the junior pontiff, Vijayendra Saraswati, are facing trial in a murder case that shook the Kanchi math in 2004.
"Works are on in full swing and a 70-hour programme content for the trial run is being created. Our application for a licence, submitted three months ago, is being processed and we hope to get it in 15 days," sources said. The programmes to be beamed between 5 am and 11 pm will cover temple functions, religious discourses, bhajans, suprabatham and carnatic music.
The channel was earlier planned to be launched on April 14 but had to be postponed, sources said. Hindus, particularly NRIs, were anguished that there was no channel for Hinduism and were more than willing to support it, said a math devotee, closely associated with the seers. (Will Hindus in India feel something about Hindu Dharma like NRI Hindus? – Editor)
Pointing out to the latest Tamil film ‘Arai En 305il Kadavul’ in which Lord Ram was shown as staying in a lodge and the posters of ‘Vanakkamma’ depicting two lead characters, dressed like Lord Ram and Lord Hanuman, attending to nature’s call in public, he asked: "Will they dare to defame other religions like this ?"
Source: Times of India
