In India, increasingly, the exception is the rule. In every sphere ofgovernance, we see a pervasive unwillingness to impose or abide by the law.National policies contribute directly to the rising anarchy across the country.Governments then seek to treat these self-inflicted wounds by providing fitfuland preferential relief to small and arbitrarily selected segments of theaffected population and, in this, compound existing injustice with furtherinequity. If anything, the consequences are made significantly worse by theinefficiency and corruption of the delivery mechanisms for the distribution ofthis purported 'relief'.