NEW DELHI: Doordarshan is to telecast live the launch of the PSLV-C22/IRNSS-1A Mission from Sriharikota on 1 July.

The telecast of the Mission Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle will be telecast from 11.41 pm.

The launch will be live on both DD National and DD News.

NEW DELHI: Doordarshan will telecast a telefilm ?Pratishodh?, based on a classic short story by litterateur and now Prasar Bharati chairperson Mrinal Pande.

The story forms part of an anthology of stories by Pande. The telefilm directed by Rajiv Rai will be telecast at 6.00 pm today on DD One.

The Screenplay has been written by Satish Garg and Jyotsna Mahapatra and the telefilm stars veteran artistes Vinod Nagpal and Kavita Nagpal with Rajshree Seem and Manoj Sharma.

The protagonist of the story, Madhusudhan Babu, is a grumpy old man who has devoted his life serving for pure Indian classical music. He considers women and children the root cause of all problems, and believes that the world would be a better place without them.

His life takes a turn when Damayanti, a middle aged widow enters his life and give a new dimension to his music. The climax portrays how Madhusudhan finds himself striving to the last possible extent to not lose his new found hope.

NEW DELHI: When Jawaharlal Nehru sat in Ahmednagar Jail in Ahmednagar Fort writing ?Discovery of India? between 1942 and 1946, he could not have imagined the book would not only become a major scholarly work on 5000 years of Indian history, but also get converted into a major television series.

Since its first production in 1988, the 53-episode ?Discovery of India? in English and ?Bharat Ek Khoj? in Hindi directed by the eminent filmmaker Shyam Benegal have been telecast several times on different channels of Doordarshan and also on Lok Sabha TV.

To mark the death anniversary of Nehru who died on 27 May 1964, DD Bharati is commencing the telecast of ?Bharat Ek Khoj? on 27 May. The series will be telecast from Monday to Friday and again on Sunday at 7.30 pm.

Created by Benegal, the series had renowned actor Om Puri not only enacting several mythological and historical characters but also was the narrator of the series, though Roshan Seth, who also played the role of Nehru, was the narrator in some episodes. Others in the cast included: Tom Alter, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Naseeruddin Shah, Lucky Ali, Seema Kelkar, Mita Vashisht, Pallavi Joshi,rivastav, Sohaila Kapoor, Ila Arun, and Irrfan Khan. The cinematographer for the series was the highly-awarded V K Murthy.
Meanwhile, Doordarshan is telecasting another serial linked to the teachings of one of the most revered human beings in the world, Mahatma Gandhi.

The serial titled ?Ek Kiran Roshni Ki? is being telecast on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 9.00 PM on DD National.
 
Produced by Ashwini Sidwani and directed by Rajesh Gupta and Aloknath Dixit, it has music by Ravindra Jain. Zarina Wahab, Anjan Srivastav, Anang Desai and Rajesh Puri are in the main cast.

?Ek Kiran Roshni Ki? is a story of Roshni, a girl who fights against injustice and brings about social change by following Gandhiji?s footsteps. Corruption, glamour and social etiquette of the modern world do not influence Roshni?s love for humanity or her simplicity. These qualities may have become a liability but undeterred she soldiers on. The serial has focused on women and children and highlighted the issues faced by them such as child labour, female infanticide, and female feticide. It has also tackled the issue of termination of pregnancies particularly in cases where the health of the mother is at risk.

The serial promotes social justice, national consciousness, national integration, communal harmony and the upliftment of women as well as cater to the special needs of the youth.

NEW DELHI : Information and Broadcasting minister Manish Tewari today strongly condemned the attack on the Doordarshan office in Chhattisgarh?s Jagdalpur district, 320 km south of Raipur, by a group of suspected Maoists.

The minister said the incident was very sad since the public broadcaster was attempting to give voice to people in such regions.

The attack in the early hours of yesterday resulted in the death of three security personnel and one injured.

"The Maoists scaled the wall of the Doordarshan station at Marenga, 12 km from Jagdalpur town, and opened fire on Chhattisgarh Armed Force personnel around 2.00 am, said a police source.A head constable and two constables were killed in the attack. The injured security official was rushed to a hospital.

The Maoists fled with the weapons of the security personnel after the attack, the police source added. The attack shook the Chhattisgarh government because Jagdalpur is relatively the least affected of the seven districts in the state?s Maoist-hit Bastar zone.