[Goanet] Indian students abroad

[Nelson Lopes]

Indian students abroad

India has prestious IIT,,'s which are not sufficient to cover all aspirants
with merit
There are some private Universities of repute  but the intake is too heavy
for purse  of ordinary poor students
Private colleges are totally business oriented  and the standards,
infrastructure staff requirementate  are compromised
Our students are spread across  many countries, where the stadards  are
much higher and the cost of education  are comparatively  low than un India
.These are brains that also  will be drained in search of greener pastures
after completion of studies
Why cannot we
 have  tie ups with best institutes that our smart students are retained
within the country.?
P.M is crying hoarse in shouting make in India. Why can't he  permit such
prominent institutions tie up to cater to rising demands and those who can
afford without Govt having to subsidise?
Govt too sponsors select  briliant ,promisong number of students to
foreign  universities,
Our private colleges are cornered by politicians  whose aim  is to do
business not  for the love for education
Today we see that thousands of students are studying in Ukraine and parents
are frightened about the safety  of their return
It should have Govt seriously thinking of providing best of facilities to
those who can afford Most of the top politicians  educate their children
abroad and thus certify the standards of Indian  education
People have no faith in  private educational institutes established by
politicians  purely as  business proposals for gains

Nelson lopes   Chinchinim

Re: [Goanet] War and Peace and Vladimir Putin (Dhaka Tribune, 4/3/2022)

[Mervyn Lobo]

 Another great article, VM.

While I agree with all you have written, the purpose of this response is to 
point out one salient point barely mentioned.

Every US action in world affairs is carried out for only one purpose - to 
advance its own interest. The US will not enter into any conflict to protect 
someone else. Most recall that the US chose to not get involved in WWII until 
it was attacked.   

At this very moment, a lot of US financial and distributions firms are 
scrambling to find alternatives to electronic work done in the Ukraine. Do not 
expect a coherent US response to Putin for sometime. According to some 
calculations, US commercial investments in Russia - including the likes of 
McDonalds, etc. - are much larger than anyone estimates. The US will not put 
these assets at risk.

Lastly, as you correctly point out, the US is aware that putting restrictions 
on Russia to its access it own reserves - has huge consequences. Sovereign 
wealth owners and those managing the wealth of nations WILL look for 
alternatives. This is ultimately what is a stake and hence the farcical 
response, at the moment, to Putin's moves.


Mervyn
      
 

On Friday, March 4, 2022, 08:35:12 a.m. CST, V M  wrote: 
 
 
 https://www.dhakatribune.com/op-ed/2022/03/04/war-and-peace

“Kings are the slaves of history,” wrote Leo Tolstoy in *War and Peace*,
his 1869 literary masterpiece that recalls the French invasion of Russia,
and its socio-cultural aftermath as Napoleonic ideas penetrated Tsarist
society.

Tolstoy’s famously sprawling novel – my Oxford World Classics paperback
runs over 1300 pages – is filled with insights of special relevance to this
very moment, as Vladimir Putin’s troops continue to push forward into
Ukraine. Here, another famous line comes to mind: “the strongest of all
warriors are these two – time and patience.”

As we are all aware, neither attribute is readily evident in our glimpses
of the battlefield since Russia commenced invading its neighbour on
February 24. Instead, our newspapers, televisions and smartphones are
inundated with misinformation, propaganda, and cynical manipulation of
social media that makes it very hard to detect what’s really at stake.

In this regard, there are only few undeniable facts bearing closer
examination, as the world tries to figure its way out of an increasingly
unpredictable predicament, which darkened even further after the Russian
president evoked the spectre of nuclear warfare.

Primary amongst these data points, from our point of view in South Asia, is
the unanimous abstention earlier this week by India, Bangladesh, Pakistan
and Sri Lanka, from the United Nations General Assembly resolution
condemning Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, where 141 countries voted
yes (including our smaller regional neighbours of Bhutan, Afghanistan,
Maldives and Nepal).

This collective refusal to toe the line peddled by the West has drawn its
own firestorm of moralist criticism, with India bearing the brunt. As the
superb historian and author (and former military man) Srinath Raghavan
pointed out after one particularly sententious fusillade, these
“overwrought” admonitions are “useful reminder that the language of
strategy and interests is usually reserved for analysing the actions and
choices of the great powers, while the language of morality and principles
is deployed for the rest.”

Many other similarly useful reminders of bigotry, racism and hypocritical
double-standards keep emerging, including the stupendously ahistorical
accusation that Russia has brought war back to Europe for the first time
since WWII. It is as though NATO didn’t bomb Serbia for 78 days in 1999,
and the Bosnian genocide doesn’t count since (Muslim) Bosniaks aren’t quite
as suitably “blond and blue-eyed” as the Ukrainians whose sufferings the
west now stirs itself to bemoan.

As the outstandingly perceptive American journalist, author and academic
Howard French – his latest book is the instant classic *Born in Blackness:
Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second
World War* – put it on Twitter: “All of this blather asking how could such
violent events be visited upon civilized Europe. To think how much mental
energy it must take to suppress memory of the fact that Europe has
repeatedly been the scene of the greatest barbarity in [the] last century.”

Writing for *The Telegraph*, the acclaimed historian Ramachandra Guha
summarized the situation highly pertinently. Comparing the Russian assault
on Ukraine to “American misadventures in Vietnam and Iraq and the Soviet
misadventure in Afghanistan”, he noted that each episode “ended badly,
causing enormous suffering in the country that was subject to invasion, a
loss of prestige for the invader, and negative ripple effects across the
world.”

All that is happening anew at warp speed in 2022, with implications far
beyond any that Vladimir Putin – or indeed NATO – might have anticipated.

“Ukraine’s resistance to Russi

[Goanet] All About Sanctions

[Roland Francis]

From the Washington Post an informative article;

Russia is under unprecedented economic pressure after invading Ukraine. Many in 
the West feel vindicated, even happy that the financial might of the United 
States, Europe and other allies is being fully used against Russian President 
Vladimir Putin and his allies after years of half measures and looking the 
other way.
But some experts and analysts aren’t feeling triumphant. Instead, they’re 
worried. Worried that these sanctions will have collateral damage in Russia and 
beyond, potentially even hurting the very countries that impose them. Some even 
worried that the sanctions intended to deter and weaken Putin could end up 
emboldening and strengthening him.
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“I’m concerned about the scale of this economic warfare,” Nick Mulder, a 
historian at Princeton and the author of “The Economic Weapon: The Rise of 
Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War” told me in an email. “Economic measures to 
punish Russian aggression and to support Ukrainian defense are absolutely 
necessary. But Western governments should be very careful about which sanctions 
they impose next.”
He isn’t the only one concerned.
One former Obama administration official that worked on sanctions, who agreed 
to talk on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly, said the scale of the 
restrictions on Russia has been so huge and unprecedented — so its knock-on 
impact could be huge and unprecedented, too. The former official noted 
thatRussia’s central bank, which had its assets frozen by the United States in 
a Rubicon-crossing move, had more assets than the entire economic output of 
Iran.
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“It’s not apples and oranges,” the former official said. “It’s apples and 
elephants.”
Here are some of the concerns about sanctions I heard when speaking to experts 
over the past week:
Sanctions could hurt Russian civilians. The West has sanctioned Russian banks 
and oligarchs, aiming to hit the Russian leadership and its allies. But those 
likely to face crippling impacts could be ordinary Russian citizens, far 
outside the halls of Kremlin power, many of whom have shown little support for 
Putin’s war in Ukraine — if not outright opposition.
The ruble plunged this week, losing almost 30 percent Monday, while Russia’s 
central bank raised its key interest rate from 9.5 percent to 20 percent. As 
The Post’s Robyn Dixon reported from Moscow, the move led Russians to crowd 
around ATMs in a desperate bid to withdraw their cash.
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Inflation is expected to rise significantly in Russia, with unpredictable 
effects. Andrey Sizov, head of Russia-based consultancy SovEcon, said he 
expected food prices to go from 1 percent increases month over month to as much 
as 6 percent given the combination of economic pressure and the war itself, 
which disrupts some of Europe’s most important agricultural trade.
“Ninety-nine percent of the Russian people have no influence on Kremlin policy. 
I’m not keen on making life more miserable for ordinary Russians, which these 
sanctions will do,” said Gary Hufbauer of the Peterson Institute for 
International Economics.
Sanctions could drive elites closer to Putin. Western governments have taken 
aim at Russian oligarchs and the broader elite in a way never been done before, 
effectively cutting them out of the United States and Europe. But how will the 
elite react? And how much power do they have anyway?
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As Max Seddon of the Financial Times wrote this week, the power dynamic is 
important. It’s Putin who has the power over the oligarchs, not the other way 
around. And by limiting their exposure to the West, many will have no choice 
but to edge closer to their leader. “Being on the US sanctions list used to be 
a status symbol of patriotism. But now it’s a requirement. If you’re not on it, 
it’s suspicious,” one anonymous state banker told the FT.
The former Obama administration official told me that there was little sign 
that sanctions drove Russian elites away from Putin in the past. Significant 
sanctions were placed on Russian oligarchs afterRussia’s 2014 annexation of 
Crimea, but none distanced themselves from Putin — in some cases, such as the 
billionaire businessman Arkady Rotenberg, they appeared to get closer.
Sanctions can escalate, rather than de-escalate, conflicts. The threat of 
sanctions is meant to deter a conflict before it happens. But clearly, Russia 
was not deterred. So what’s the plan now?
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Sanctions could be lifted if Russia pulls back or some form of peace agreement 
is reached. But that may be easier said than done. Sanctions are sticky and 
when in place, they can be harder than expected to remove. The number of U.S. 
sanctions designations has grown substantially year on year since 2000.
The domestic political pressure to keep sanctions on Russia will be strong in 
the West be

[Goanet] Higher Education in India

[Roland]

Here are the salient points of the article below:
The Government has indirectly contributed to increased expensive private 
education, thus making it available only to the wealthy by underfunding public 
education.
The bureaucracy in education has increased with setting up of various useless 
schemes and strategies and expanding ‘reservations’.
Govt funding is focused on ‘hard to get in’ exclusive institutions like IITs 
and IIMs.
Poor students are effective shut off from quality education.
Schooling will even more than before become divisive between the few rich and 
the vast poor.
 
You will in the coming years see more and more Indian students fleeing to 
colleges and universities abroad.
 
From the Indian Express
Tertiary education is in growing disarray. Expanded schooling and greater 
reservations have redefined the student composition of public universities. By 
a reaction among the privileged, private universities have grown incrementally: 
They account for two-thirds of all enrolment today. The NEP ignored this factor 
beyond a pious declaration of the government’s primary role. Instead, it mooted 
another division between institutions by pre-set levels of teaching and 
research. Here, it followed the government’s lead, reflected in an operational 
shift from the UGC to the ministry’s direct control. Research is regimented 
through schemes like IMPRESS and IMPRINT, and institutions brought to heel 
through codes of conduct, imposed curricular and recruitment protocols, or even 
legislation.
 
Funding is increasingly focused on a handful of institutions, through what may 
be called the ranking syndrome. Allocations for IITs, IIMs, IISERs grow 
unimpeded, while the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) for general 
university funding is down by a third. “Institutes of eminence” are nurtured by 
vagaries of funding and proprietorship —Centre versus states, public versus 
private. Most state governments are equally culpable. Perennially impoverished 
state universities are further hamstrung by political and bureaucratic 
over-lordship.
The upshot is a centrifugal order with no clear thrust or coordinated 
deliverables. Public universities are in foster care while more and more space 
is afforded to private institutions. The equation between the two sectors now 
replicates the long-standing pattern of school education. Hence, poor students 
have markedly less access to quality higher education. The quota for the 
Economically Weaker Section will be infructuous if the income ceiling remains 
this high — genuinely poor students will lose out. Moreover, the pandemic has 
affected public universities vastly more than private ones, owing to the 
former’s greater sprawl and the average economic condition of their students.
What scenario emerges on pooling all these factors? Schooling will grow still 
more divisive than before, reversing whatever progress government schools had 
made. The likely results range from a higher dropout rate to a resurgence of 
illiteracy. Some understated hints in the NEP grow sinister in this light: The 
stress on vocational training and apprenticeships, the explicit sanction of 
under-resourced schools and, outrageously, of children out of school.
 
The public university system will continue to decline. A few central and still 
fewer state universities might hold out, who knows how long. Alongside a 
plethora of overpriced teaching shops, a sprinkling of reputable private 
universities might provide meaningful education to a small section. Neither the 
state schooling system nor people’s fee-paying capacity will allow their 
numbers to reach the critical mass required for a vibrant knowledge order. 
Research will suffer badly. All this will ensure an outflow of academic talent 
to institutions abroad.
The process is already underway. Besides the horrendous human toll, such 
squandering of human resources (with consequent social unrest) is bound to 
frustrate economic growth. In that milieu, no one could buy or manipulate a 
radiant future for their own children. There could be no future for anyone in 
such a land.
 
 
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[Goanet] PRATAPSINGH RANE SHOULD HAVE GRACEFULLY CALLED IT A DAY

[Aires Rodrigues]

All political parties should make their stand clear on that State sponsored
lifetime cabinet status malafiedly bestowed on Pratapsingh Rane. Their
silence on this serious issue is deafening. It is time to flush out the
truth and ensure the Government and Pratapsingh Rane come clean over this
sleazy gesture.

This lifetime cabinet status is clearly a crafty quid pro quo gifted by
this government for Pratapsingh Rane having agreed to walk away from the
political turf and tacitly bless the BJP.

A very senior politician that he is, Pratapsingh Rane would have been
remembered for the right reasons if he had spurned that offer and resisted
the temptation of enjoying cabinet status for the rest of his life at the
cost of taxpayer’s more so with the State exchequer being in dire straits.

Pratapsingh Rane could have displayed Statesmanship by not succumbing to
this glut for Power. It is now very clear that Pratapsingh Rane might have
officially been in the Congress, but his mind, heart and soul was
elsewhere. Instead of enjoying a peaceful and contented retirement,
Pratapsingh Rane has sullied his image by proving that he cannot live
without government sponsored power and perks.

It is very unfortunate to have to drag the 83 year-old former Chief
Minister to Court, but  would have failed in my bounden duty by being a
mere spectator to this unconstitutional, illegal and unlawful lifetime
cabinet status. Had to move the High Court successfully in 2007 when
similarly those Parliamentary secretaries with cabinet status were
appointed unlawfully.

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



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[Goanet] Valencia’s Horchata

[Roland Francis]

Portuguese Goa had it’s own orchata - a lovely milky white drink made of 
almonds and rose water and particularly soothing in the territory’s stifling 
summer heat.

But this is a BBC Travel article on tiger nuts from the Valencia region of 
Spain and the local sweet drink they make of it. The history, the cultivation, 
the role in culinary tradition and other interesting facts that surround 
Horchata.

Spain's 'white gold' super-drink - BBC Travel
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220224-spains-white-gold-super-drink

Roland.
Toronto.

[Goanet] Disappearing Language: A Reading List on Losing Your Native Tongue

[ymirconsulting]

I’ve always regretted losing my Konkani and my Portuguese obtained in Goa 
during my schooldays there; sometimes in my early morning consciousness I 
regret the circumstances that led to my ignorance. And now after fifty years in 
Canada I regret having lost much of my Kiswahili much of which I learned in the 
years I was a roving geologist in Tanzania.

Does it really matter?  I don’t know, but I wish I had still facility with 
those languages. 

Mel
https://longreads.com/2022/02/24/disappearing-language-a-reading-list-on-losing-your-native-tongue/


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[Goanet] Schedule for Saturday 5th March 2022

[CCR TV]

CCR TV GOA
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You can also watch CCR TV live on your smartphone via the CCR TV App
Available on Google PlayStore for Android Platform.
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Schedule for Saturday 5th March 2022

12:00 AM
Rosary - Joyful Mysteries

12:23 AM
Gethsemane - Song by Rebecca de Souza

12:26 AM
Biblical Web Series - Eps 1 - DCBA

12:30 AM
Abundant Life - Simple Life - Prof Nicholas D'Souza

12:53 AM
Hymn - Yeshu Ki Jai Ho - Savina & Leon Gonsalves

1:00 AM
Mass in Konkani for Friday

1:45 AM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag  156  - Irena Sendler - Fr Pratap Naik sj

1:54 AM
Role of St Joseph - Fr John Peter

2:00 AM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister

2:26 AM
Devachem Utor - Lokgonnti - Avesvor 20 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

2:38 AM
Tithing - Talk by Alfwold Silveira

3:03 AM
Building Confidence - A talk by Ankitta do Rego

3:13 AM
Adoration 4 - St Anthony Church, Siolim

3:40 AM
Parkhonnim -  Interview by Daniel de Souza

4:10 AM
Gaionancho Jhelo - Jezu amchi Xanti - Monica Fernandes

4:13 AM
The Golden Brigade - Valerian and Joanita

4:45 AM
Power of Faith - Gourish Naik

5:31 AM
Goal Post Ep 4 - Savio Medeira interviewed by Jovito Lopes

5:58 AM
Hymn - I Believe

6:03 AM
Health Matters - Cancer Treatment -  Dr Jean Louis De Menezes

6:27 AM
Jezu - Bhakitant ani Itihasant - Talk by Adv. F.E. Noronha

6:55 AM
Sokalchem Magnnem  -  Koresmacho

7:00 AM
Praise and Worship  led by  Domnic Rodrigues

7:30 AM
Morning Prayer  - Lent

7:35 AM
Devachem Utor - Lokgonnti - Avesvor 20 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

7:45 AM
Bhajan - To Amchaa Svami- Fr Glen D'Silva

7:53 AM
Wisdom Reflections -3 - Rachol Professors

8:22 AM
Lenten Journey  -  Day 4 - Shirley Gonsalves

8:30 AM
Kurpa - Fr Anthony Lopez CSsR

8:57 AM
Poem - Kaklut by Sandhya Fernandes

9:00 AM
The Family - Ken Terezinha

9:27 AM
Hymn - Yeshu Ki Jai Ho - Savina & Leon Gonsalves

9:33 AM
The Golden Brigade - Caitano and Gracy D'Souza

10:00 AM
Amchi Bhas Amche Borovpi - Ashok Chodankar interviewed by Daniel de Souza

10:40 AM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag  183  - Ivan Fernandez - Fr Pratap Naik sj

10:48 AM
Patkache Kumsar - Talk by Victor Mascarenhas

11:14 AM
Hymn - Sonvsarachi Ranni- Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)

11:18 AM
Intercessions - English

11:26 AM
Angelus - English

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

12:15 PM
What is the differrence between Ascension and Assumption? - Rev. Clive Diniz

12:20 PM
Encountering Jesus - Talk by Dr Sarita Nazareth

12:45 PM
Through Mary to Jesus - Eps 2 - Fr Jovito D'Souza S.J.

12:55 PM
Prayer to St Joseph By Pope Francis (Konkani)

12:57 PM
Literally Goa - Fr Visiticao Monteiro interviewed by Frederick Noronha

1:25 PM
Prayer for the Synod 2023 - Konkani

1:27 PM
Rosary of St Joseph Vaz

1:50 PM
Koxtt, Dogd - Piddapidd - Talk by Mathew Fernandes

2:10 PM
Bhagevont Zuze Vazache mozotin Bhurgeancher Magnnem

2:14 PM
Seven Sorrows of Mary - Fr Pio Furtado sfx

2:30 PM
Our Father - in Punjabi

2:34 PM
Goychea Futtbolachea Vostad Ep 9 - M.M. Mutawalli interviewed by Daniel de
Souza

3:25 PM
Deivik Kaklutichi Magnneam

3:35 PM
Rosary - Joyful Mysteries

4:00 PM
Mass in Konkani from Batim

5:00 PM
Senior Citizens Exercises - 8

5:28 PM
Bhurgeanlem Angonn - Bhag 2

5:30 PM
Pekovnni - Talk by Orlando D'Souza

5:57 PM
Prayer for Vocations

6:00 PM
Aimorechen Magnnem

6:03 PM
Temptation  - Talk by Fr Socorro Mendes

6:48 PM
Magnificat (English)

6:50 PM
Amchi Bhas Amche Borovpi  - Fr Savio Rico Fernandes OFM Cap interviewed by
Daniel F. de Souza

7:20 PM
Tell Me a Story  - Eps 52 - God Reveals His personality through His laws

7:30 PM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister

7:56 PM
Gethsemane - Song by Rebecca de Souza

8:00 PM
Mon Bodlun Bapachea - Talk by Fr Victor

8:30 PM
Youthopia - Priyanka Sawant - Special Needs Educator interviewed by Elisha
Fernandes

8:48 PM
Devachem Utor - Lokgonnti - Avesvor 21 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

9:00 PM
Adoration from Batim

9:30 PM
Ratchem Magnem

9:47 PM
Carpenters Cross 2

10:53 PM
Pain and Sufferning - Talk by Fr Abrakam sj

11:15 PM
Career Guidance - Home Nursing - Ana D'Mello - Co-ordinator - St. Bridget
Institute Aldona

11:33 PM
Learning Konkani - 20 - Fr Pratap Naik sj

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[Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] Light in Iceland: Stapafell

[Rajan Parrikar]

Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Light in Iceland:
Stapafell'

Home of elves.

Illumination on Stapafell, the 526 m high mountain in Snæfellsnes, Iceland.

The first two images were taken from the helicopter, the third from the ground,
the fourth from a drone.

The Light in Iceland collection.

You may view the latest post at

https://blog.parrikar.com/2022/03/04/light-in-iceland-stapafell/


Warm regards,

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

[Goanet] War and Peace and Vladimir Putin (Dhaka Tribune, 4/3/2022)

[V M]

https://www.dhakatribune.com/op-ed/2022/03/04/war-and-peace

“Kings are the slaves of history,” wrote Leo Tolstoy in *War and Peace*,
his 1869 literary masterpiece that recalls the French invasion of Russia,
and its socio-cultural aftermath as Napoleonic ideas penetrated Tsarist
society.

Tolstoy’s famously sprawling novel – my Oxford World Classics paperback
runs over 1300 pages – is filled with insights of special relevance to this
very moment, as Vladimir Putin’s troops continue to push forward into
Ukraine. Here, another famous line comes to mind: “the strongest of all
warriors are these two – time and patience.”

As we are all aware, neither attribute is readily evident in our glimpses
of the battlefield since Russia commenced invading its neighbour on
February 24. Instead, our newspapers, televisions and smartphones are
inundated with misinformation, propaganda, and cynical manipulation of
social media that makes it very hard to detect what’s really at stake.

In this regard, there are only few undeniable facts bearing closer
examination, as the world tries to figure its way out of an increasingly
unpredictable predicament, which darkened even further after the Russian
president evoked the spectre of nuclear warfare.

Primary amongst these data points, from our point of view in South Asia, is
the unanimous abstention earlier this week by India, Bangladesh, Pakistan
and Sri Lanka, from the United Nations General Assembly resolution
condemning Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, where 141 countries voted
yes (including our smaller regional neighbours of Bhutan, Afghanistan,
Maldives and Nepal).

This collective refusal to toe the line peddled by the West has drawn its
own firestorm of moralist criticism, with India bearing the brunt. As the
superb historian and author (and former military man) Srinath Raghavan
pointed out after one particularly sententious fusillade, these
“overwrought” admonitions are “useful reminder that the language of
strategy and interests is usually reserved for analysing the actions and
choices of the great powers, while the language of morality and principles
is deployed for the rest.”

Many other similarly useful reminders of bigotry, racism and hypocritical
double-standards keep emerging, including the stupendously ahistorical
accusation that Russia has brought war back to Europe for the first time
since WWII. It is as though NATO didn’t bomb Serbia for 78 days in 1999,
and the Bosnian genocide doesn’t count since (Muslim) Bosniaks aren’t quite
as suitably “blond and blue-eyed” as the Ukrainians whose sufferings the
west now stirs itself to bemoan.

As the outstandingly perceptive American journalist, author and academic
Howard French – his latest book is the instant classic *Born in Blackness:
Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second
World War* – put it on Twitter: “All of this blather asking how could such
violent events be visited upon civilized Europe. To think how much mental
energy it must take to suppress memory of the fact that Europe has
repeatedly been the scene of the greatest barbarity in [the] last century.”

Writing for *The Telegraph*, the acclaimed historian Ramachandra Guha
summarized the situation highly pertinently. Comparing the Russian assault
on Ukraine to “American misadventures in Vietnam and Iraq and the Soviet
misadventure in Afghanistan”, he noted that each episode “ended badly,
causing enormous suffering in the country that was subject to invasion, a
loss of prestige for the invader, and negative ripple effects across the
world.”

All that is happening anew at warp speed in 2022, with implications far
beyond any that Vladimir Putin – or indeed NATO – might have anticipated.

“Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion has changed everything,” writes
the historian Adam Tooze in *The New Statesman*, because the West “expected
sanctions to be delivered as punishment in a postwar situation with Ukraine
crushed, humiliated and occupied.”

When that didn’t happen quickly, writes Tooze, the “spectacle of
self-empowerment changed the geopolitical calculus. The EU, NATO and
individual states made choices [which] would have previously been
unthinkable [and] applied sanctions that were never previously considered.
The freezing of Russia’s central bank reserves means crossing the Rubicon.
It brings conflict to the heart of the international monetary system. If
the central bank reserves of a G20 member entrusted to the accounts of
another G20 central bank are not sacrosanct, nothing in the financial world
is. We are at financial war.”

These kinds of moves can be significant, like Airbus and Boeing announcing
they would halt maintenance and service for Russian airlines, or silly,
like the University of Milan’s absurd “de-platforming” of Fyodor
Dostoevsky. But taken as a whole, they indicate the growing global
consensus – including here in South Asia – that Putin’s gambit in Ukraine
cannot be allowed to succeed, despite the west’

[Goanet] From Zebra to Motorbike: Transnational Trajectories of South Asian Doctors in East Africa, ca 1870–1970 (Margret Frenz)

[Frederick Noronha]

In 1870, Dr Francisco da Piedade Paixo Noronha was appointed to the service
of the sultan of Zanzibar. Building on the example of this path-breaker,
the first identifiable  South  Asian doctor in East Africa,  other doctors
from South Asia began to practise in East Africa in the late nineteenth
century. They established themselves in government service or in their own
practices in the twentieth century and by the middle of the century were
prominent members of the emerging East African South Asian professional
class. Not only did they excel in their profession, but they were also
visible in the public arena as supporters of social welfare projects and as
political activists, in some cases as journalists.South  asian  doctors  in
East Africa provide an apt dase  study  to  explore  issues  raised  at
 the  confluence  of  several  academic  fields:  migration studies,
imperial and global history, networks of empire, and the history of
medicine.  In most of these fields, South Asian doctors are
under-researched and an untapped resource for historical analysis. for
instance, in the East African context,  John Iliffe does not look at South
Asian doctors in his pioneering history of doctors in East Africa, but
focuses solely on East Africans, whereas Anna Crozier in her study 
 ---Frenz, Margret. "6. From Zebra to Motorbike: Transnational Trajectories
of South Asian Doctors in East Africa, ca 1870–1970". Doctors beyond
Borders: The Transnational Migration of Physicians in the Twentieth
Century, edited by Laurence Monnais and David Wright, Toronto: University
of Toronto Press, 2018, pp. 142-165.
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442629622-009
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[Ramachandran]

Union Minister releases the

“STATE OF INDIA’S ENVIRONMENT 2022” Report

Dear Friend, 

We are glad to inform you that our latest annual report, "State of
India's Environment 2022", was officially released on 1st March 2022
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This 9th annual report in our State of India’s Environment series
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Waste, Air Pollution, Forest & Biodiversity, Habitat, Health & Food,
Industry, Rural India, and of course the Pandemic. We also bring out
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[Goanet] Propaganda on Ukraine ...Make the French and other get mad

[Adolfo Mascarenhas]

 According to the Smithsonian ...

It's “very unlikely” that Europe's Mars rover will launch this year, the
European Space Agency (ESA) said Monday

.

The ExoMars mission, a joint project between ESA and the Russian space
agency, was scheduled to leave for Mars in September. The rover was
originally going to ride a Russian rocket into space and land on the Red
Planet nine months later using Russian hardware, according to Mack DeGeurin
for *Gizmodo
*.
Now,
the rover’s launch from *Kazakhstan* has been postponed because of Russia's
invasion of Ukraine.

Note Kazakhstan and Ukraine are two separate entities !!

Full story in 
*https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/europes-mars-rover-very-unlikely-to-launch-in-2022-due-to-russian-invasion-180979660/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20220302-daily-responsive&spMailingID=46482543&spUserID=NjMxNzE2MjU0NjE0S0&spJobID=2200300996&spReportId=MjIwMDMwMDk5NgS2
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