Re: [Goanet] Freddie Sayers asks: Who is Éric Zemmour?

[Roland Francis]

Modi only knows how to express his own opinion. 

The average Hindu is secular. It is Modi who is turning him into a bigot.


> On Dec 3, 2021, at 6:34 PM, Frederick Noronha  
> wrote:
> 
> Not Swede! French.
> As much as Modi "is accurately expressing the opinion of the common"
> Indian, I guess.
> FN
> 

Re: [Goanet] What Is the Price of the Modi Years?: In Conversation with Aakar Patel

[Roland Francis]

An excellent 33 minute interview by two intelligent people who break down their 
discussion to understandable issues, making it easily digestible.

Aakar Patel the author has detached himself from any bias in his views as well 
he should and Mitali Mukherjee does likewise. It’s people like these two to 
whom Modi should listen and not to his own overblown authoritarian ego.

Here is how Patel, also a Gujarati like Narendra Modi, is best described:

“Aakar Patel has courted trouble for a long time. The temporary suspension of 
his Twitter account was only the latest. Through all his identities as 
reporter, editor, podcaster, Gujarati, Amnesty International’s India chief, 
Patel has always been a mischief maker. While his latest tweets, saying that 
Muslims, Dalits, and Adivasis should stage their own form of Black Lives Matter 
protest in India, have left many angry and entertained, the Indian State is not 
amused.

What’s going on with Aakar Patel appears to be a frequent question among 
India’s commentariat. Has he just been reduced to a Modi-Shah baiter today?

On closer inspection, Aakar Patel is like any other writer, thinker, 
journalist, or activist who refuses to turn a blind eye to the State’s 
excesses, and does not mince his words. Some of his critique, be it of the 
Narendra Modi government at the Centre or of other governments in states, has 
been through his writing, or through reports he oversaw while helming human 
rights watchdog Amnesty International.”

Roland
Toronto.


> On Dec 3, 2021, at 7:02 PM, Frederick Noronha  
> wrote:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HozHH4sD8Pg
> ᐧ

[Goanet] What Is the Price of the Modi Years?: In Conversation with Aakar Patel

[Frederick Noronha]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HozHH4sD8Pg
ᐧ

Re: [Goanet] Freddie Sayers asks: Who is Éric Zemmour?

[Frederick Noronha]

Not Swede! French.
As much as Modi "is accurately expressing the opinion of the common"
Indian, I guess.
FN

On Sat, 4 Dec 2021 at 04:37, Roland Francis 
wrote:

> My opinion differs.
>
> Eric Zemmour is accurately expressing the opinion of the common Swede and
> he is expressing it well.
>
> That interview by the way was worth listening to. Sayers asked the right
> questions and Zemmour answered them clearly and coherently: no dodging, no
> vitriol, no disconnection.
>
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Re: [Goanet] Freddie Sayers asks: Who is Éric Zemmour?

[Roland Francis]

My opinion differs.

Eric Zemmour is accurately expressing the opinion of the common Swede and he is 
expressing it well. 

That interview by the way was worth listening to. Sayers asked the right 
questions and Zemmour answered them clearly and coherently: no dodging, no 
vitriol, no disconnection.

As an immigrant myself, although not a refugee, not a Muslim and not a 
rightist, my views are that of Zemmour exactly. I came to a country with a 
certain culture and development and if I wanted any changes, it was not to 
reflect the norms in my previous culture from which I was eager to get away but 
to help develop ones that I came to.

Luckily Canada does not have the problems of Europe, although the unbridled 
immigration and excessive tolerance to the newcomers’ demands are almost alike. 
We are fortunate that our refugees do not impose their bad habits not because 
the authorities stop them, but perhaps because they see a good thing and they 
do not want to endanger it.

We do get the same elements of extreme Muslim society but there are no ‘no go 
areas’, no sharia demonstrations, no getting to a stage where the police are in 
fear of confronting the lawbreaking elements. How far this sensible situation 
will stand is anyone’s guess.

What I have seen is that however volatile the Muslim first generation refugee 
immigrants are, the next generation loosens the holds of religion and old 
culture from their public lives and assimilates. Something in the Canadian 
teaching system and in Canadian society that makes them conform. Seems Europe 
does not have that.

Here is my wish list:
Let immigrants continue coming. They are good for this young and huge country, 
indeed they are necessary for it but they have to follow whatever process is 
laid down. I have trust in the system.

What I do not have trust in, is the unnecessarily large refugee arrivals that 
are allowed. I am told that even refugees have to follow a system, but I have 
no trust in it and   I fear the numbers of barbarians waiting at the gate who 
are the result of violence and trickery. Climate change refugees will add to 
that too. Among them are people who just want to beat the system and skip the 
line of applicants in due process of applying for immigration. 

Beating the system has so far been controlled - but just. When the floodgates 
burst, so will the system. This is what is happening for Europe because of 
geography.

Right wings thoughts from a person who denies being right wing? Appears to be, 
except that I am an immigrant myself and have ears closer to the ground more 
than non-immigrant Canadians do. 

Roland.
Toronto.


> On Dec 3, 2021, at 3:22 AM, patrice riemens  wrote:
> 
> Re: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M9P0kLxElY
> 
> Looking at the Zemmour phenomenon, a Zhou Enlai quote (yes, him! ;-) may be 
> appropriate. Asked what his take was on the French Revolution, he replied "it 
> is too early to decide". And yes, the French Revolution is still not over, 
> there is still a solid core in French society that rejects its values of 
> 'liberty, equality, and fraternity'. That part of France gave us the Vichy 
> regime during WWII (which even abolished the 'Republic' and replaced it by 
> the 'French State' (slogan: 'work, family, fatherland' ). These are the 
> 'conservative', I'd say reactionary, values promoted by Eric Zemmour and his 
> ilks.
> 

Re: [Goanet] Puzzled about Connection between SFX and the Japanese Empress.

[Joao Barros-Pereira]

SFX was fairly successful in China much more successful in Korea but a
total failure in Japan.

The Japanese Emperor did not want to see him because the Jesuits
though great scholars were known as wily priests.

There was also the rivalry between the Portuguese and Spanish priests
for favor of the Emperor's ear.

If the Jesuits thought they might be able to convert the whole of
Japan if they succeeded in converting the Emperor and the nobility
they were sadly mistaken. The Emperor refused to meet SFX.

Christianity in Japan was viewed as a curiosity more than anything
else as it is today.

Strangely enough SFX spoke highly of the cleanliness in Japan and the
honesty of the Japanese people.

He unfortunately was terribly frustrated in Japan and lashed out at
the language.

In his famous words: the devil created the Japanese language as an
obstacle against Christianity!

On 12/3/21, Adolfo Mascarenhas  wrote:
> I was a bit puzzled about SFX contact with the Japanese Empress. The
> Emperor had refused to see him ..
> But missionaries including Jesuit They did remarkable things in China
> ..yes the Empress of China got converted;
> Nothing to do with the fiction created by one of our netters !!! Rumour
> mongering So what is the story...the real story.
>
> *The Significance of the Museum in Taipei*
>
> When Mao Tse-tung overthrew on the mainland, and the nationalist went to
> Taiwan, they created a National Palace Museum housing the ancient treasures
> of the emperors of China. Ordinary citizens from the mainland fleeing from
> China in 1949, brought several magnificent objects of sculpture and
> painting with them to their refuge on Taiwan.
>
> Several years ago, Western visitors to the museum were astonished to see a
> special display of the art of "the Jesuits." Quote After all, Jesuits and
> Catholics have never been many in China. But once, long ago, European
> Jesuits were not only present in China but were highly regarded for their
> skills in artistry and in other pursuits revered by the Chinese, such as
> astrology and mathematics
>
> It turns out that Pope Innocent X, 1644 to 1655, <<< communication in Rome from the dowager empress of China who announced her
> conversion to the Catholic Church and her adoption of the name Helena,
> after the saintly mother of Emperor Constantine. She was not the only one
> then near the Dragon Throne to turn to Christianity.>>.
>
> Grandolfo
>
> In cool Makongo Juu
>
> *I am most grateful to Msgr. Owen F. Campion
> 
> who
> in July 1998*
>
> Please visit
> https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=473
>

[Goanet] WHEN WILL OUR GOA SEE GOOD GOVERNANCE

[Aires Rodrigues]

True democracy focuses on public good while defending the welfare and
protecting its citizens. No democracy can survive without the powerful
notions of compassion and public service.  Any sensible and worthy
Government must take positive action in public interest and the larger
common good.



Every possible step must be taken to ensure total transparency, efficiency
and honesty in the working of every government department. Only then will
there be a hope for the much needed Good Governance in Goa.  In any smooth
functioning democracy every government office must always be of the people,
by the people and for the people. Every government servant must truly vow
towards this goal. Those who cannot deliver must make room for the young
and vibrant who are ready to serve with total devotion.

Besides, every government employee has a duty to ensure that in serving the
public, they discharge their duties very courteously, professionally with
love, passion, integrity and more importantly with that much needed smile.

Citizens are entitled to expect excellent service at all times. Those who
consider serving the people a burden and cannot even smile have no right to
continue in service.

The Government must also tap the talent and potential of the students,
youth and NGOs towards improving the quality of life of every Goan.


Adv. Aires Rodrigues

C/G-2, Shopping Complex

Ribandar Retreat

Ribandar – Goa – 403006

Mobile No: 9822684372

Office Tel  No: (0832) 2444012

Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com



You can also reach me on

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Twitter@rodrigues_aires

www.airesrodrigues.in

[Goanet] Schedule for Saturday 4th December 2021

[CCR TV]

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Schedule for  Saturday 4th December 2021

12:00 AM
Rosary - Joyful Mysteries

12:23 AM
Falling in Love - Relationships in a Digital Era - Hosted by Judie D'Cunha

12:56 AM
Bhagevont Zuze Vazache mozotin Piddestam Khatir Magnnem

1:00 AM
Mass in Konkani for Friday

2:00 AM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister

2:26 AM
Devachem Utor - Suttka - Avesvor 3 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

2:35 AM
Health Matters - Tuberculosis - Dr Max D'Sa

3:08 AM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag  131  -  Othirponn - Fr Pratap Naik sj

3:14 AM
Youthopia -  Kluivert Menezes  interviewed by Diasa Da Costa

3:35 AM
Psalms  107 - Read by Alfwold Silveira

3:40 AM
Entrepreneurship -  Alison Jane Lobo - Bread and Pao - interviewed by Basil
D'Cunha

4:02 AM
Prayer for Healing from Cancer

4:07 AM
Skit - Voch Ani Tuvuim Toxench Kor - Tomazinho Cardozo -3rd Anniv

4:29 AM
Bhurgeanlem Angonn - Bhag 11

4:31 AM
Wisdom Reflections -8 - Rachol Professors

4:54 AM
Prayer of children for their parents

4:58 AM
Apologetics - Catholic Church Pt  2 - Adv. F.E. Noronha

5:22 AM
Prayer over Childless Couples - St Joseph Vaz

5:23 AM
Hope and New Beginnings - Talk by Francis Fernandes

5:54 AM
Our Father - Sadri

5:58 AM
Kids Programme - What's on Your Mind ? - Episode 2

6:09 AM
Tell Me a Story  - Eps 34 - Joseph's Reunion with his family

6:18 AM
Jezu-Onnbhov ghetlolo xis tacho urbevont govai zata - Fr. Aaron Magalhaes

6:48 AM
Bhokti Lharam- Bhag 6

6:55 AM
Sokalchem Magnnem  -  Advent upto 16th December

7:00 AM
Praise and Worship -  Youth United for Christ (YU4C)

7:28 AM
Morning Prayer - Advent upto 16th December

7:31 AM
The Church - God's plan - a talk by Sarita Nazareth

8:01 AM
Love, Marriage, Sex - Talk by Colin Calmiano

9:06 AM
Hymn - You are my all in all - Flute cover - Fr Seville Antao - OFM(Cap)

9:08 AM
Advent Retreat - Day 1 - Band of Priests

11:20 AM
Prayer for the Synod 2023

11:22 AM
Angelus - English

11:24 AM
Intercessions in English

11:30 AM
Mass in English from  Panjim Church\  followed by Daily Flash

12:15 PM
Broadening the horizons of your mind - Talk 2 - Fr Fio Mascarenhas sj

12:54 PM
Hymn - Vakhann'nni Tuka - Stanley Severes

1:00 PM
Apologetics -Mary - Adv. F.E. Noronha

1:37 PM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag  170  - Karthayani Amma - Fr Pratap Naik sj

1:43 PM
Marian Reflections -7 -  DCC

2:06 PM
The Golden Brigade - Connie and Bonnie Rodrigues

2:38 PM
Song - Let's Care for Our Common Home - Fr Tomas Lobo

2:44 PM
Rosary of St Joseph Vaz

3:08 PM
Prayer to St Joseph By Pope Francis (Konkani)

3:10 PM
Psalm 91 - Read by Alfwold Silveira

3:15 PM
Society of the Missionaries of St Francis Xavier (Pilar) - Vocation
Promotion

3:25 PM
Hymn - Maie Kaklutin Ge Bhorlole - Assencia Fernandes

3:30 PM
Divine Mercy Chaplet

3:40 PM
Devachem Utor - Utpoti - Avesvor 46 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

3:50 PM
Skit  - Reach out the World Needs You - St Thomas Parish Catechetical
Apostolate, Aldona

4:00 PM
Rosary - Joyful Mysteries

4:23 PM
Bhokti Lharam - Bhag  21

4:30 PM
Senior Citizens Exercises - COOJ

4:56 PM
Magnificat (English)

5:00 PM
Praise & Worship - Magno Menezes - SJVSRC Old Goa

5:15 PM
Train Yourself to be Holy - Dr Brenda Nazareth Menezes

5:43 PM
Tell Me a Story  - Eps 43 - Israelites flee from Egypt

5:48 PM
Prayer for the Synod 2023 - Konkani

5:50 PM
Aimorechen Magnnem

5:53 PM
Song - Amcho Sobit Modgovam- Carmel Youth , Margao

6:00 PM
Novena 6 - Panjim Church

7:00 PM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister

7:26 PM
Hymn - Vakhann'nni Tuka - Stanley Severes

7:30 PM
4th Anniversary Concert

9:30 PM
Devachem Utor - Utpoti - Avesvor 47 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

9:41 PM
Ratchem Magnem

9:56 PM
Our Father - in Indian Sign Language

10:00 PM
Jazz Goa  World Day Broadcast

10:57 PM
Bhagevont Zuze Vazache mozotin Bhurgeancher Magnnem

11:00 PM
Health Matters  - Organ Donation and Transplants -  Dr Amol Mahaldar

11:46 PM
Youthopia - Rizma D'Souza - Athletics - interviewed by  Mysticka Deniz

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[Goanet] Newest Bars and Diners in Goa

[ymirconsulting]

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[Goanet] SEAT RIM MISADVENTURE

[Adolfo Mascarenhas]

Mervyn:
As I read your fascinating tail (some call it tale) It dawned on me what
you were up toI will come to that at the end .
In a good tale there must be some facts..You did exactly that..slip knot,
thanks to 2nd St Joseph's Scout brigade (Jerry Luis was a first Generation
Scout Master, my brother Anastazio and Tony Carneiro were 3rd generation
Scout Masters )
You need to know a bit more about alligators.  My  knowledge is based on a
Crocodile Farm run by a young white couple. She actually held a foot long
baby croc in her hand ...even told us that the tail end was best for
eating. Ophelia and myself saw the 12 feet monsters and their sly beady
eyes.  etc

The croc remains you saw on the island. Was it not a baby elephant you say
it was a BOAR  it was a tail end of the story .If you had said that
the alligators fed on countless GNU (the Boers call them Wildebeest or in
Dutch Wild Cattle ...the males have a small  beard). I would give you
credit ...What is wrong with calling a Warthog a Worthog/

So Mervyn what are you up to ?

Eureka having some Zanzibar connections *.I realize that like the
recent Zanzibari  fellow you are aiming high The NOBEL PRIZE  in
Literature. What a grand Noble Idea*

I certainly will pray to SFX (he was a Noble and Aristocrat) in the
Cathedral in the City its raining so heavily I have ordered a NOAH


Message: 4Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2021 04:52:10 + (UTC)
From: Mervyn Lobo 
To: 
Subject: [Goanet] Sea Rim Misadventure
Message-ID: <1706767121.2269338.1638507130...@mail.yahoo.com>

[Goanet] Angela Barreto Xavier among the winners of the Infosys Prize

[Frederick Noronha]

The Infosys Science Foundation (ISF) announced and felicitated the
laureates of the Infosys Prize 2021 on December 02, 2021.  A distinguished
international jury, composed of leaders in each of these fields, evaluates
the work and achievements of the nominees against stringent standards of
international research, placing the winners on par with the finest
researchers in the world. https://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/

Video of the virtual award ceremony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp8XJsdfDzU

Ângela Barreto Xavier is a Researcher with the Institute of Social Sciences
of the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL). She holds a PhD in History &
Civilisation from the European University Institute a Master in Political
and Cultural History from the New University of Lisbon and a History and
Art History Degree from the New University of Lisbon. She has taught at
Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho
e da Empresa, and she has been Maître de Conférences Invitée na École des
Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), Visiting Scholar at the History
Department of Harvard University, having collaborated with the Universidad
Complutense de Madrid. She is now an Invited Professor of the Cunha Rivara
Chair at the University of Goa.

She has published many books and articles, in Portuguese, English and other
languages. Main books: Monarquias Ibéricas em Perspectiva Comparada (secs.
XVI-XVIII) Dinâmicas Imperiais e Circulação de Modelos Administrativos
(org. c/ Federico Palomo e Roberta Stumpf, Lisboa, Imprensa de Ciências
Sociais, 2018); O Governo dos Outros. Poder e Diferença no Império
Português (org. c/ Cristina Nogueira da Silva, Lisboa, Imprensa de Ciências
Sociais, 2016);  Catholic Orientalism. Portuguese Empire, Indian Knowledge,
16th-18th centuries (c/ Ines G. Zupanov, Delhi, Oxford University Press,
2015);  A Invenção de Goa. Poder Imperial e Conversões Culturais nos
séculos XVI e XVII (Lisboa, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2008); Cultura
Intelectual das Elites Coloniais (org. c/ Catarina Madeira Santos, número
especial da revista Cultura – História e Teoria das Ideias 2ª série, vol.
XXV, 2007);  Afonso VI (c/ Pedro Cardim, Lisboa, Círculos de Leitores,
2006); El Rey aonde póde e não aonde quer. Razões da política no Portugal
seiscentista (Lisboa, Colibri, 1998).

Her research interests include the history of political ideas (El-rei aonde
pòde e não onde quer, 1998), and the cultural history of early-modern
empires, namely the problems related to religion, science, power and the
cultural geopolitics.
https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/pessoa/angela-barreto-xavier
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[Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] Winter Getaway

[Rajan Parrikar]

Delectable early morning light on Lake Hlíðarvatn in Reykjanes, Iceland, seen
a couple of days ago.

The scene may look picture postcard - and in a way it is - but the
area is exposed
to the North Atlantic, and howling winds, not uncommon here, can quickly
turn the mood around.

You may view the latest post at

https://blog.parrikar.com/2021/12/03/winter-getaway/


Warm regards,

Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar
ra...@parrikar.com

[Goanet] Please join Zoom meeting in progress

[Frederick Noronha]

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Topic: Challenges to RTI Implementation in Goa: Brainstorming Session
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Re: [Goanet] Remembering a Goan tragedy

[Rajan Parrikar]

>BUT  can that  cross not be maintained with the respect it deserves?  It is
in
>a very bad  condition.  This is  history  ..- when will the government of
Goa
>do something about it?

It is the apathy of our own Goans that is to blame.

I remember during 2006-2008, on my early morning walks along the promenade
I would see urination, open defecation, tossing of garbage right on the
pavement by the migrants (aka people Frederick Noronha & his tribe love,
but not deeply enough to admit them into their own homes).

I would cross paths with many of the 'prominent' citizens of Panjim during
these walks. Not a single one could be bothered to even notice. What they
did notice was that I had a camera documenting the filth and they found a
lot of time behind my back to whisper about it.

I did try to do something about it by filing a PIL and bringing it to a
successful conclusion. But there has to be follow-up and there need to be a
larger, common involvement. Social media posts and tweets don't cut it.

My attitude now is - you the Goans allowed this stink to rise in your
midst, now wallow in it.


r

[Goanet] The Unicorn Indian CEO (Dhaka Tribune, 3/12/2021)

[V M]

https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2021/12/03/the-unicorn-indian-ceo

Non-stop hoopla rages in the Indian media after Jack Dorsey, the enigmatic
founder-CEO of Twitter, announced on November 29 that he was stepping down
on that same day, and his replacement would be 37-year-old Parag Agrawal.

Just minutes later, Patrick Collison, the CEO of Stripe (another vaunted
technology company) tweeted: “Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto
Networks, and now Twitter run by CEOs who grew up in India. Wonderful to
watch the amazing success of Indians in the technology world and a good
reminder of the opportunity America offers to immigrants.”

To that, the poster boy of 21st century techno-plutocrats, Elon Musk
quickly added: “USA benefits greatly from Indian talent!”

Those comments triggered fireworks of virtual jubilation from Mumbai to
Mountain View. Even now, 75 years after decolonization, nothing flexes the
Indian chest more than approval from the West, no matter how condescending.

Here, Musk follows -- albeit slightly more palatably -- in the vein of Bill
Gates, who told reporters on his first tour of India in 1997 that “South
Indians are the second-smartest people on the planet.”

As Vijay Prashad puts it in his landmark 2000 book *The Karma of Brown Folk*:
“For those who are guessing, he rated the Chinese as the smartest; those
who continue to guess should note that white people, like Gates, do not get
classified, since it is the white gaze, in this incarnation, that is
transcendental and able to do the classifying. The generic assumption in
these statements is that Asians (in general) and South Asians (in
particular) are especially endowed with an ability to be technically astute
workers.”

Prashad points out: “The implication is that the high proportion of Asians
in the technical fields says something about Asians’ nature rather than
about their recent cultural history. No explanation is offered for the
poverty in the subcontinent, poverty that cannot be overcome despite the
inhabitants’ “genetic brilliance.”"

In fact, there are several parallel phenomena at work in the undeniably
spectacular storming of the highest levels of American (and to a much
lesser extent, UK-based) corporate hierarchies by waves of Indian
immigrants.

In her 2020 analysis for CNN (
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/02/perspectives/indian-ceo-perspectives/index.html)
entitled *9 Reasons the Indian CEO keeps coming to the rescue*, the veteran
journalist, author and media executive S Mitra Kalita did an excellent job
of outlining some of those convergent reasons, saying “there is a risk of
reading into one group's success as a case of Indian exceptionalism, which
I truly do not believe.

Rather, a series of external factors have contributed to the rise of the
Indian CEO, which says more about the state of corporate America, a
globalized workplace, technological disruption and the leaders who might
prevail.”

Kalita’s article notes that almost all the new Indian CEOs come from
heavily quantitative engineering backgrounds which gives them exceptional
“data intelligence.” But she also looks at traits that derive from growing
up in the highly diverse, endlessly competitive subcontinent, in a country
that doesn’t always work efficiently, such as “crafting a Plan B (in case
no water comes out).”

When I emailed her after the Twitter announcement, Kalita elaborated: “We
are in uncertain times. But who better than the immigrant to know that
there was a life before, and there will be a life after, but the in between
must be about purpose and re-invention. That's the journey of corporate
America right now. Anyone who craves stability or takes global dominance
for granted probably can't and shouldn't be leading a company. Indians know
how to follow the rules, but also have an uncanny ability to know when to
divert or disrupt to achieve results.”

There was also a note of caution. Kalita told me: “Remember that the
Indians who came to America are the best and the brightest, and, recently,
increasingly, the richest. Just look at an international student's tuition
bill for proof. So we need to be cautious of assigning some sense of
superiority to the success of a relatively small (but significant) number
without accounting for privilege and power.”

This is entirely on point, and why the burgeoning desi corner-office cohort
is much better understood in the way that venture capitalists think about
start-up companies that survive almost impossible statistical odds to
achieve billion-dollar valuations. It was the angel investor Aileen Lee who
coined it, in the Silicon Valley staple TechCrunch in 2013, when there were
only 39 (now there are over 800). Parag Agrawal is a unicorn.

Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Arvind Krishna: They are all unicorns. It
takes a nation of 1.3 billion to produce a small stable of them, and it’s
absurd to get triumphalist about their successes.

Nonetheless, that is what is happening in India, when even the 

[Goanet] Fwd: LUIZINHO'S ELOQUENT SPEECH IN RAJYA SABHA

[Stephen Dias]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Stephen Dias 
Date: Fri, 3 Dec, 2021, 10:33
Subject: LUIZINHO'S ELOQUENT SPEECH IN RAJYA SABHA
To: navhind times , navhind 
Cc: lpost 




DEAR EDITOR
Arun Sinha
Navhind Times

Sir,

KINDLY PUBLISH THIS LETTER

TMC Rajya Sabha MP now from  West Bengal and former Chief Minister of Goa,
Luizinho Faleiro made an impressive speech in the Rajya Sabha, his first
appearance in the Upper House and the speech delved deep into the
misgovernance of Goa is concerned with respect to coal transportation, the
ill conceived three linear infrastructure projects which is destroying the
Western Ghats in particular the Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary and the
Mollem National Park, the double-tracking of railway and the Tamnar Power
project and the harm being created to the environment in Goa as also the
diversion of the Mhadei water and the inability of the government to resume
sustainable mining which is affecting 2.5 lakh dependents as well as the
overall as he termed as the Sanctum Sanctorum of Goa. It was totally out of
place that the Speaker of the Rajya Sabha M. Venkaiah Naidu was stalling
him, which is not acceptable for a speech that was well delivered.

Stephen Dias
Social Activist
Dona Paula-Goa
9422443110
3rd Dec 2021

Re: [Goanet] Freddie Sayers asks: Who is Éric Zemmour?

[patrice riemens]

Aloha,

Re: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M9P0kLxElY

Thanks Fred for the London explainer of rise of the Zemmour comet in the French 
political firmament. He is bad news indeed - if you ask me. But also very 
temporary so.

Looking at the Zemmour phenomenon, a Zhou Enlai quote (yes, him! ;-) may be 
appropriate. Asked what his take was on the French Revolution, he replied "it 
is too early to decide". And yes, the French Revolution is still not over, 
there is still a solid core in French society that rejects its values of 
'liberty, equality, and fraternity'. That part of France gave us the Vichy 
regime during WWII (which even abolished the 'Republic' and replaced it by the 
'French State' (slogan: 'work, family, fatherland' ). These are the 
'conservative', I'd say reactionary, values promoted by Eric Zemmour and his 
ilks.

Zemmour is being portrayed as an 'intellectual' (also in the YT clip above), 
but he's rather an anti-intellectual one - not an uncommon phenomenon, btw, and 
as so many more, he also will describe himself as 'anti-political' ... He also 
appeals to the 'higher layers of society', loath to be associated with the 
vulgarity of populist politicians (in France the Le Pen family) and its 
supporters, even though their largely share their ideas. Hence the comet-like 
rise of such 'acceptable' extreme-rightists, syphoning of voters of traditional 
right-wing parties who had not dared to cross-over yet, despite their parties 
having increasingly espoused the same political ideas, bashing immigrants, 
established foreigners / ethnic minorities (without saying so too openly), 
'sexual deviants' (LGBTQ), and anything left of the center right, described as 
'communist' - or worse.

Will Zemmour get elected, or even make it to the second turn? I do not think 
so, because there is reason for optimism. We have seen (something like) it 
before ... in the Netherlands. There too we had a 'Front National' look alike 
political movement (it never registered as an official party), the 'Party for 
Liberty' led by Geert Wilders, when quite suddenly, Leiden University lecturer 
Thierry Baudet sprang to the fore, attracting Zemmour-like 'better educated' 
demographies that Wilders couldn't reach. The same expectations/fears of a 
political break-out and shake-up arose. And then the Thierry Baudet machine 
emptied like a pierced balloon when Baudet turned gaga voicing increasingly 
demented claims around the #1 controversy of the moment: Covid vax or no vax 
("The unvaccinated are the new Jews").

I have reasons to believe that Zemmour will follow the same trajectory. 'The 
wish is the father of the though' - Dutch saying - of course, but the extreme 
right ideology, unfortunately largely presented in India, and also on this 
list, is something that rather be commited to the mad house - and ultimately 
consigns its political representatives to it - sometimes literally. 

My 2 old centimes ...

PS Western Civilization? - a very good idea! - Mahatma Gandhi 

[Goanet] HAPPY FEAST

[Mervyn Maciel]

Boas Festas to all my friends on goanet..
St. Francis can still work miracles!



Mervyn Maciel

[Goanet] *Remembering a Goan tragedy.*

[Paul p]

I doubt many  people  know this  history. Thanks

BUT  can that  cross not be maintained with the respect it deserves?  It is
in a very bad  condition.  This is  history  ..- when will the government
of Goa  do something about it?

[Goanet] Time We Had a Goan Version of Zemmour Talking In Pakistan About Migrats

[Adolfo Mascarenhas]

Fred:

In Message: 6 Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 23:06:37 +0530
From: Frederick Noronha 
To: Goanet 


I enjoyed the clip, the young Protesters, and Mr Zemmour was more like a
Professor rather than a demagogue.

Why did I bring in Pakistan simply because France and Britain are not
the best of Friends at the moment.

It is unlikely Mr Zemmour will win but perhaps there are many old people
who think like him.

France is a strange place I had a staff member, a Bohora, she fell in
love with a fellow in Linguistics Department  and secretly married him in
France on her way to Moscow to attend a conference in Demography.  A week
later when she returned to Dar she was not even met at the airport by
her family. They were informed by their Chief Priest that they would all be
excommunicated  if they dares to take her home.  She stayed with us until
the University gave her a flat.  Five  years later her husband's house in
rural France was set on fire. They escaped and their two daughters were so
traumatized they were put in a Convent Boarding School. The youngest
daughter became a top lawyer in human rights...in London when she joined
the University. She may have been one who was demonstrating !!!


Makes me wonder are there rightwing Goans in UK, or in Goa



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M9P0kLxElY



Grandolfo

[Goanet] {Dilip's essays} Fifteen at one blow, take the escalator

[Dilip D'Souza]

December 3 2021

Every now and then, somebody asks if I ever have difficulty finding
subjects for these columns and then writing them. The honest answer is, no.
Because mathematics, and science more broadly, is like one vast ocean, and
there's no dearth of things in there that I find intriguing. Then the
writing happens.

Case in point: the Fifteen Theorem. Fascinating that there's a theorem
named for a number - and that's why I felt I wanted to find out more and
write about it. Plus its history involves three mathematical heroes of
mine, Srinivasa Ramanujan, John Conway and Manjul Bhargava. What's not to
like? On top of that, it made me think of staircases and escalators and ...
chocolate.

I can't claim to understand Bhargava's proof of the Fifteen Theorem, but I
do understand what it proves. And that's what I try to explain in my column
for Mint today:

Fifteen at one blow, take the escalator,
https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/fifteen-at-one-blow-take-the-escalator-11638466186207.html

Thoughts welcome, as always.

cheers,
dilip

---


*Fifteen at one blow, take the escalator *



There is such a thing in mathematics as the "Fifteen Theorem". Not the
"fifteenth theorem" out of the thousands upon thousands that are out there.
I mean the "Fifteen Theorem".


The name itself is intriguing. Mathematics has many famous theorems: the
Pythagoras Theorem, Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, Fermat's Last Theorem
and more. There are others that have a number in the name - Four Squares
Theorem, Four Colour Theorem ... but is there one named for a number? I
don't think so.


Because the name is so intriguing, this column will try to explore the
Fifteen Theorem.


It was first stated in 1993 by the late great John Conway and WA
Schneeberger, and here it is:


The Fifteen Theorem: If a positive-definite quadratic form having integer
matrix represents every positive integer up to 15, then it represents every
positive integer.


I spent a few minutes staring at those words. Apart from the expected
mention of 15, they reminded me of the elegant proof technique of
induction, which I first ran into in early college-level mathematics. In
essence: if something you want to prove is true for a particular "base
case", and if you can move from there to the next case (the "inductive
step"), this much completes the proof.


If that seems translucent at best, consider two examples as metaphors.


First, climbing a flight of stairs. How will you persuade me that I can
climb the whole flight? First, by showing that I can set foot on the first
stair. Second, by showing that from there, I can step up onto the second
stair. That is all I need. Because now that I'm perched on the second
stair, I use the same step up to reach the third, then the fourth, fifth
and so on ... and suddenly I've reached the top.


Second, breaking a bar of chocolate. Let's say the bar is divided by the
usual shallow lines into 20 smaller squares. How many breaks do I need to
get 20 individual pieces? Well, start with a bar consisting of one square.
Zero breaks needed. Two squares? Clearly, just one break. Three squares?
One break gives you an individual piece and a two-square bar, and the
latter needs one more break. So a three-square bar needs two breaks - and
so on. With each break, we reduce a bar to two smaller cases (e.g. single
piece and two-square bar), whose count of breaks we know. Thus we figure: a
20-square bar needs 19 breaks.


Metaphors like these help make clear what proof by induction really means.
Again, it needs two components: a "base case" (set foot on stair #1,
one-square chocolate bar) and an "inductive step" (climb up to the next
stair, break off a chocolate square). In mathematics, induction is a
powerful tool in the proofs of innumerable theorems. In the statement of
the Fifteen Theorem, to me there's a hint of induction. What it says is
that if we can prove something complicated (whatever it is) for integers up
to 15 - there's the base case - then we have proved it for all integers.


But what is that complicated thing?


Let me try to get there by starting with the Four-Squares Theorem. This
dates from 1770, when Joseph-Louis Lagrange proved a fascinating
proposition indeed. He showed that any natural number (that is, 0 and the
positive integers 1, 2, 3 and so on) can be expressed as the sum of no more
than four squares of the natural numbers (the numbers 0, 1, 4, 9, 16 and so
on).


Try this for yourself:


0 = 0

45 = 36 + 9

69 = 64 + 4 + 1

142 = 121 + 16 + 4 + 1

etc.


In algebraic terms, Lagrange proved that any given natural number N can be
written like this:


N = a2 + b2 + c2 + d2


in which a, b, c and d are also natural numbers. Taking the fourth example
above, N is 142; a is 11, b is 4, c is 2 and d is 1. Since this is true for
any natural number N, mathematicians say this equation is "universal".


Obsessed with numbers that we humans are, we've been fiddling with these
kinds of manipulations for a very long time.