I happened to catch the episode of a popular Bengali soap that was aired on Bangla channel on the 1st of August, 2016, and was greatly dismayed by a rather unfortunate segment that found place in it. It's a sequence in which the female protagonist, rushes into a government hospital with a child who had burnt his hand while playing with crackers. As she requests an admission, the nursing staff is shown to refuse admission on account of the unavailability of beds in the hospital.
What then follows is a vehement protest (designed carefully to hit smack at the sentiments of the viewers) by the protagonist which raises an alarm in the mind of the superintendent- who, as has been shown, is forced to break out of his corrupt character and accept the patient. Amidst all this, there were three things that were crystal clear to me: The production crew had absolutely no touch with the actual…
