Amrita TV's Bharatadarshanam, a rejuvenating spiritual discussion on the Bhagavad Gita that strives to interpret the sacred verses and explore its relevance in the contemporary world, has reached the laudable milestone of 2000 episodes. On air continuously for the last 8 years at 7.30am Monday to Friday, it is one of the longest running shows on Amrita TV that started its telecast on the very day the channel was launched into the viewer's orbit.

The landmark episode telecast on March 14th was attended by a panel of eminent guests consisting of Mr.K Ramachandran Nair IAS, Retd Chief Secretary; Mr.K Jayakumar IAS, Retd Chief Secretary, renowned film lyricist and scriptwriter and currently Vice Chancellor of the Malayalam University; P Narayana Kurup, noted poet and Professor Panmana Ramachandran Nair, along with permanent presenter Mr.Thuravoor Viswambaran, Prof of Malayalam and Indian Mythology at the Maharajah's College. Mr.Ramachandran Nair was the Chief Guest on the occasion in which Mr.Jayakumaar presented the anchor with a 'ponnada' and the guests spoke at length about the show's merits.

The Gita is a miniscule but cardinally important section of themassive Mahabharata epic, consisting of just 700 compact verses organized into 18 chapters, but these contain the very quintessence or core of India's ancient scriptural wisdom. It is a highly complex philosophical allegory that deals with the strife between good and evil, taking place on several planes, on a literal level in the fratricidal battle unfolding on the great plains of Kurushektra and on a figurative plane in the moral conflicts constantly being waged in the mind of every human being. Mr.Thuravoor Viswambaran, who had been charioting the show since the first episode annotates the verses in his inimitable style, explains the intricate texts by placing it against the backdrop of the present day political and social milieu, footnoting it with cross references to Greek, Chinese and Egyptian texts to make it easily understandable to the viewers.

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