As a kid, in 80s and early 90s, I remember waiting eagerly for Doordarshan programmes to begin, in the morning. Early in the morning, listening to "Vande Mataram", so melodiously sung, and watching the beautiful video, it made my day. The time was so perfect, that all our activities were linked to its broadcast, and I don't remember even a single deviation. The morning programmes, the feature of A FACE IN THE CROWD, etc. correctly defined "infotainment". Evenings, the entire family would watch the "News" together, followed by serials, which were definitely completed in a limited number of episodes. No useless fighting scenes, no show off, the serials used to depict characters, which every one could identify in the real life. The movies- weekends were delightful, with Saturday evening reserved for a Hindi feature film, and on Sundays, a regional language film in the afternoon, which was broadcast from Delhi and in the evenings, we used to have...
Yama: Hi, you know the police people are like that. With lot of tensions and stress, they work and hence they do not understand the things better. Corruption has become part of life and they cannot avoid it. Its shameful to submit but this is the truth. Nachiketa: Yes I understand all this and the police is not to be blamed entirely for this. With very pathetic infrastructure and terrible conditions, these things are bound to happen. Right from the recruitment process the problems start. Concentration is more on the physical aspects as compared to the more subtle and important emotional/ mental aspects. Then the qualification comes. Except for some smart fellows in the organization who are well qualified, most of the ground level people are only having matriculation or at the best some graduate degree “passed”. Passing a graduation and seriously studying the same has a lot of difference. Some smart fellows will not suffice for change to come. The salary struc...