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And while it will continue to provide information on fisheries and rural development relevant to the farming community, the focus will now be elsewherein evoking interest only among followers of Ram with the daily telecast of Ayodhya aarti every morning..
Doordarshan is certainly going to give some tough competition to Aastha channel, but it will lag behind on the issue of diversityno, not the general kind but diversity within Hinduism..
Broadcasting only the morning aarti of Ram Lalla would amount to utter discrimination against hundreds of thousands of other Hindu gods, not to mention hurting the sentiments oftheir followers...
Now, with the Lok Sabha elections around the corner, the regular airing of Ram Lallas aarti on Doordarshan doesnt come as a surprise..
In the past, Doordarshan has run shows depicting the lives of Hindu gods such as Ganesh and Krishna, to name a few, but never has this channel run an aarti (prayer) this would be a first...
