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Kanchi seer to launch Sankara TV in 20 days


Ajitha Karthikeyan | TNN

Chennai: Pained at the “anti-Hindu propaganda” by some television channels and “defaming of the religion” by the film industry, the K a n ch i Sankaracharya, Jaye n d r a Saraswati, has decided to launch a channel called Sankara TV to spread Hinduism.

According to Mutt sources, the religious channel will be launched simultaneously in Tamil, Kannada and Telugu. To be run by one of the trusts of the ancient Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam, the channel is all set to be launched in 20 days.

The launch of Sankara TV comes at a time when Jayendra Saraswati and the junior pointiff, Vijayendra Saraswati, are facing trial in a sensational murder case that shook the Kanchi Mutt in 2004.

“Works are going 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 Mutt devotee, closely associated with the seers.

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 ?”