When a whole state like Andhra heads for chaos, when NGOs in other regions threaten hold-ups and paralysing actions, when engineer executives resort to strikes, when managers in the public sector are pushed into bandhs and gheraos by a pampered working force, when the university campus is a playground for knife- wielding scholars, when the spirit of clean, honest civil and police administration can be broken by every fool leader, it is time to order a correction. Behind the depression there is solid achievement which can be built upon. But the erosion of confidence and the wasting away of healthy initiative must be halted.