SAVDHAN INDIA AND DASTAK
(All that is necessary for evil to succeed is, for good men to do nothing---Edmund Burke.)
(By Dr V S Karnik)(Dec 2014)
After watching FIFA football matches for a month at night regularly, once the matches were over, there was nothing much for me to watch on TV. Suddenly, I came across two TV serials, based on real crime stories in India. The names of these serials are “Sawadhan India” and “Dastak. “, showing real crime cases of India. The meaning of “Sawadhan India” is to alert people, as somewhere crime is taking place. “Dastak” means that, a criminal, before actually committing a crime, gives some indications about the impending crime, by his pattern of behaviour. Dastak is equivalent to indications of what is going to happen. These real stories and the headings kept me thinking...









