Goa, Sept. 11 -- GLADSTONE D'COSTA

Laws, like the MVA for example, are designed to regulate society and protect it from infringements. The two mentioned above, do neither, trying to introduce or der where there is no disorder, and exposing the duplicity of the present dispensation. The FCRA goes back to 1976 and was the outcome of a paranoid socialist government that was convinced that the US, through the CIA, and other agencies was out to undermine democracy in India by influencing trade unions and other charitable or ganisations. Since its introduc tion, there have been a number of amendments, with the latest one being most radical. For eign funds are generally routed through NGOs, and the destina tions are of two broad groups; those i...