I for a matter of fact love watching International Channels like TV5 Monde Asie, ITV Choice, Australia Plus, NHK World, Al Jazeera, DW TV, CCTV etc. but i know i am in minority as many people don't like watching these channels in India, similarly there are people like me who watch religious channels and when compared to number of people who watch Hindi GEC , Hindi Movies or even English GEC , English Movies the genre of Religious Channels will also fall into a minority viewership in terms of share.
No one can decide which channels are good which are bad. I don't understand Religious channels except Punjabi but i have no right to say that other Regional Language channels are crap.
If you clearly see even lower packages of Airtel, Videocon or Tata Sky (to some extent barring the channels they don't carry on the platform) give most popular channels in them. To each his own, you can choose whichever package or DTH platform serves ur need.
One can't expect any operator to serve all needs of customers that too in lower priced packages