Aires Rodrigues’s very evocative phrase brings out crudely but very effectively 
the practice of sycophancy of bureaucrats and police personnel to the political 
powers-that-be.

For example one cannot avoid the vision in the mind’s eye of Muktesh Chander 
(DIG) and Sharma (Chief Secretary) bobbing up and down in the cage with nodding 
head and screeching voice and feathers all ruffled when an aggressive MLA or 
the CM himself shouts at them: Polly, didn’t I tell you not to dirty your cage?

Is this what Nehru kicked out the Portuguese, to usher in into Goa?

Roland Francis
Toronto.

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