AIR starts its First Ever Sanskrit News Program

AIR starts its First Ever Sanskrit News Program 'Sanskrit Saptahiki'

          All India Radio(AIR) FM channel will be broadcasting its first ever news program in Sanskrit Language for 20 minutes duration. All India Radio has named the news program 'Sanskrit Saptahiki'. Sanskrit Saptahiki will be broadcasted every Saturday . Repeal broadcast will be available on Sundays. The news program will have the following components:

 

i) Sukti: This will be the opening segment. It will be in the form of a shloke, a quote from Sanskrit literature will be in the form of Shloka, a quote from Sanskrit liturature will be explained in this segment as a shloka.

ii) Prasang: A story from Indian epics. History or from the art and culture field of India.

iii) Saptahiki: Top news of week

iv) Sanskrit Darshan: News from the world of Sanskrit

v) Gyan Vigyan: An Interview with a Prominent Sanskrit language literate.

vi) Ek Bharat- Shrestha Bhart: Sanskrit to Hindi translation of five commonly used words.

vii) Anvikshiki: This will be the closing segment in which with focus on India's culture and tradition, Major historical events of the week will be covered.

viii) 'Vaartavali' completed the 5 years of continues broadcast.

ix) DD News has completed the 5 years of continuous broadcast of Sanskrit News Magazine 'Vaartavali'.