All India Radio (AIR),
Bangalore, in association with Vigyan Prasar, Delhi, and Karnataka Rajya
Vijnana Parishat, Bangalore, will air a new, 26-episode, educative series in
Kannada on chemistry, beginning June 24. It will be broadcast every Sunday at
9.30 a.m.
Giving details on the
new programme, titledRasayana, AIR Station Director Chetan Naik told
presspersons here Friday the new series is aimed at making science more
accessible to common people and students.
Designed in the format
of short plays, the programme promises to be listener-friendly and simplify
science. These plays will be scripted by eminent science writers like K. V.
Ghanashyam, Kollegala Sharma, M.R. Nagaraj and others.
Listeners of the
programme will be posed with questions at the end of every episode and 10
people answering correctly will be awarded, he said.
Sumangala Mummigatti,
science anchor, AIR Bangalore, said: “The programme focuses on the latest
research in chemistry, available research options for students, as well as the
everyday applications of chemistry.”
Similar series will be
broadcast in 19 languages including Kannada all over the country.
In Karnataka, it will
be aired simultaneously in the Bangalore, Mysore, Bhadravati, Dharwad and
Gulbarga centres, she added.
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