This year too, the Britons in Kathmandu have called for applications for the British Foreign Ministry sponsored scholarships, which they claim are highly competitive, have limited seats and so on. But questions are being raised about the transparency maintained during the course of the selection and legitimacy of the very scholarship scheme. What I have heard may not be true, but Kathmandu is rife with rumours that nepotism, favouritism and bribery work even within the British bureaucracy in Kathmandu, just like in the case of several other scholarship schemes. It seems that the Britons living in South Asia too are infected with such third world viruses as nepotism and corruption. Are you listening?