Goa, Sept. 10 -- JOSE MARIA MIRANDA

Governance, admin istration and law and order, both at the Centre and in many States, including ours, have reached such abysmal lev els that it is difficult to choose a topic on which to write. Minimum govern ment, maximum govern ance was a welcome slogan, which has been forgotten by the very people who propagated it, possibly, as election gimmick. Non-BJP States are far better gov erned than the BJP ones, precisely because of less government interference. Law and order, in many parts of the country, is pa thetic, to say the least, and even in our small Goa, it just doesn't exist. The Central Home Min ister asserted, recently, that just as Naxalism has been eliminated, drug car tels and narcotics will ...