


On April 1, 1976, it transited to become a separate Department in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, though still serviced by All India Radio, especially for its news. All this time, it was part of the national broadcaster, All India Radio. By 1972, services were extended to Mumbai and Amritsar and then on, to seven other cities by 1975. The experiment became a service in 1965, when Doordarshan began beaming signals to reach television sets in living rooms in and around the country’s capital, New Delhi. The makeshift studio and its players beamed their voice and visuals through a small transmitter, daring to dream of becoming the prime vehicle of development of a nation that had shrugged off its yoke of slavery just over a decade earlier. Interestingly, the illusory cyber paths that crisscross homes and streets and represent the voice a billion-plus Indians today, actually began with a modest experiment in public service telecasting on September 15, 1959. Remember that you belong to Christ and live as a child of God.Doordarshan – literally, a glimpse of all afar- is the face of and a witness to India’s metamorphosis to a global leader in digital communications. In the blood of Jesus, you have been washed clean from your sin-don’t roll around in the same immoral mud anymore.

As Jesus told his disciples, “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” The solution is to purposefully peer into God’s Word daily and prayerfully put into practice what we read there. All too easily, we slip into old sinful habits and self-destructive patterns. Unfortunately, that is what happens when believers forget what the Bible reveals about who they are in Christ and what type of life that God has called them to live as Christ’s followers. How could we return to the way of life that separated us from God in the first place? Now we live for God as his dearly loved children and heirs of heaven. Connected to Christ through Baptism, we died to sin. But through his perfect life and innocent death, Jesus set us free from the curse of the law.

We read in the Bible that all of us had been doomed to damnation because of our disobedience to God and his word. The Bible closely connects Christian behavior with a conscious and deliberate recollection of who we are in Jesus Christ. In a moving scene in Disney’s The Lion King, the spirit of the departed Mufasa admonishes his son Simba with the words, “Remember who you are.” The young lion’s lifestyle choices revealed that he had forgotten who he was-the rightful king, and therefore he had forgotten his father as well.
