Goa, April 9 -- JOSE MARIA MIRANDA

In a highly spiritual coun try, like ours, it ought to have been considered sacrilegious or offensive to even pose a question like the one in the caption. But, sadly it is so. The putridity and corruption in the ad ministration have reached such abysmal levels that I dare say that there is no place for honest people in this country. Dishonesty, bribery and corruption have existed, for long, cutting across all Governments and Parties in the country, omnipres ent; perhaps in smaller measure earlier and greater, now. Winston Churchill and our own Rajagopalacha ri proved prophetic when they predicted what type of rulers we would have, after Independence. Perhaps it is not as shameful to have 251 (46%) of ou...