A conversation between CNN-News18 managing editor Anand Narasimhan and the Shankaracharya of Puri’s Govardhan Peeth is in focus for all the wrong reasons.
In the “mega exclusive” interview part of the show The Right Side, the prominent seer reiterated the significance of caste in the Hindu faith and the potential of India to become a Hindu state while the journalist listened to him intently, without any cross-questioning. The tickers read “decodes the ‘real’ Hindu”, “a Hindu rashtra possible?”, and “Hindu, Hindutva, Hindustan”.
