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D.A.S.H. (JUSTICE SERVED THROUGH INJUSTICE)
Sanjeev Mahapatra, author
At Candolim beach, the evening is approaching, it’s slowly getting darker. A boy and a girl are enjoying it as the boy is chasing his running girlfriend. At last, the girl became tired and sat down on the sand near the dense bushes. The boy slowed down and fell next to her. Both were relaxing at the same time laughing. Being tired of running on the beach the boy tried to lie down on his back over the creepers behind him. As soon as he did that he fell into a ditch that was covered by those plants and creepers. Seeing this, the girl could not stop her laugh and started laughing loudly. The boy came out of the ditch and sits aside the girl again. The girl took hold of his hand to say something but she felt wet and when she carefully saw it was red blood all over him. She screamed out loudly Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
A few months later
BHI News is a news channel agency, mostly ranked number one in the country. BHI Live news is being telecast on the big LED screen outside the building. In every add break of it, the highlight of the day is popping out. That is the lunch of the thriller novel “D.A.S.H.”, today at 5 PM in the hall of the same building. Many high dignitaries are coming for the launching of this book.
Now it’s 10 AM and a TV show on this book “D.A.S.H.” has started on the BHI News channel. The popular news anchor Ms Pampa Choudhury is conducting the show. Irrespective of whether one watches the news or not but everyone knows Pampa. She is the hottest news anchor of the time. Though she is only 5 feet height but has a beautiful face.
People gathered to see the show outside the building and inside the building, in the newsroom, Ms Pampa Choudhury started the show;
‘The whole city is waiting today when the clock will strike 5 and they will be able to get their copy of the Book “D.A.S.H.”. Well, we have witnessed so many books launching before but today what is so special that everyone eagerly waiting for this book to come out, what is that inside this book which has made it a common word in everyone’s mouth, what is that which has made this book so special for which the whole city is waiting. Let me take them one by one.
The first and foremost sensation of this book is that this is the first time in history that a book will be launched which has no author. Yes, you heard it right. The author of this book is unknown. No one knows who has written this book.
Again this book is published and launched by the most acclaimed criminal lawyer in our country Mr Harish Tilak. And let me tell our viewers that he is not a writer.
As per Mr Harish, he got this book on a beach at Goa, when he was spending his vacation there. While standing on the beach the manuscript of D.A.S.H., carried by the waves touched his feet. It was covered by a plastic bag. After reading it Mr Harish got so fascinated by the book that he wanted it to be formally published though it has no author or in other words, the author's name is not mentioned.
But apart from all of these, the biggest reason this book is awaited by millions of people is that they doubt that this book could be the last written book of Devasish Agnihotri, the number one criminal suspense writer in our country, who died while working on a book a few months back. Everyone knows that Devasish was brutally murdered and the judgment arrived by the court, sentencing his murderer, is also not appreciated by many of his fans. The public still thinks that the actual culprit is still to be known. Mr Harish being the closest friend of Mr Devasish has taken up his case and lost it. Now that he is publishing a book without an author, it raises many questions in the minds of everyone especially those who are great lovers of Mr Devasish. Is this the last book of Mr Devasish which will reveal the actual cause of his murder and who the murderer is?’
After a silence, Ms Pampa continued ‘it's 10 AM now let’s wait for another 7 hours and all our questions will be answered.’