  End state of gravitational collapse and the related cosmic censorship
conjecture continue to be amongst the most important open problems in
gravitation physics today. My purpose here is to bring out several aspects
related to gravitational collapse and censorship, which may help towards a
better understanding of the issues involved. Possible physical constraints on
gravitational collapse scenarios are considered. It is concluded that the best
hope for censorship lies in analyzing the genericity and stability properties
of the currently known classes of collapse models which lead to the formation
of naked singularities, rather than black holes, as the final state of collapse
and which develop from a regular initial data.
