m Walter from goa residing in canada often read the goa news and I must say message two was written very well n in good descriptive language well done W.Sequeira
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Re: Reading About Rishi (O Heraldo, 30/10/2022) (Rajan Parrikar) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 12:19:04 +0530 From: Goa Road safety Forum GRSF <grsfo...@gmail.com> To: Director of Transport <dir-tran....@nic.in>, Dr Pramod Sawant CM <drpramodsawan...@gmail.com>, mauvingodin...@rediffmail.com, nileshcab...@rocketmail.com, dgp...@goapolice.gov.in, igp...@goapolice.gov.in, spn-pol....@nic.in, sps-pol....@nic.in, pce-pwd....@nic.in, engof-pwd....@nic.in Cc: thearundhatifoundat...@gmail.com, "tfpa...@gmail.com" <tfpa...@gmail.com>, ddtnorth-tran....@nic.in, "Dy. Dir. Transport South, Goa" <ddtsouth-tran....@nic.in>, dda-tran....@nic.in, ao-tran....@nic.in, adthq-tran....@nic.in, adtngenf-tran....@nic.in, adtpanaji-tran....@nic.in, adtponda-tran....@nic.in, adtvasco-tran....@nic.in, adtmapusa-tran....@nic.in, adtmargao-tran....@nic.in, adtsgenf-tran....@nic.in, CM Goa <cm....@nic.in>, adtbicholim-tran....@nic.in, adtpernem-tran....@nic.in, adtdharbandora-tran....@nic.in, adtcanacona-tran....@nic.in, adtquepem-tran....@nic.in, cs-...@nic.in Subject: [Goanet] Suggestions for road safety Message-ID: <caa+nav4tudojnfdo5+8s6hi7fmjrf15cepvmstg5btgznw6...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" To: Director, Minister of PWD, Minister of Transport, Officials of Police CC: CMO BCC: Press Dear officials, We have attached our suggestions with regards to road safety. These are classified under Engineering, Enforcement and Public Transport categories. We hope to see a clear action plan and more importantly concrete action towards these suggestions. We are sure you realize the importance of dealing with this epidemic which has been with us for several years and needs to now be defeated. Regards, Dilip Naik, *Goa Road Safety Forum* (M) 97663 16723 ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 07:52:55 +0530 From: V M <vmin...@gmail.com> To: V M <vmin...@gmail.com> Subject: [Goanet] Reading About Rishi (O Heraldo, 30/10/2022) Message-ID: <CAN1wPW78BU-=4gwe1kz_cjrin6t3x0rjtwhai8z_k5w_4iy...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/Reading-about-Rishi/195919 The elfin 42-year-old is a walking trigger warning. The first UK Prime Minister since Disraeli whose ethnic roots lie outside the British Isles, and the youngest in 200 years, Rishi Sunak is also an observant Hindu who made his first official appearances wearing the distinctive *kautuka* around his wrist. It?s impossible to ignore the historical symbolism of someone like him taking residence in 10 Downing Street, where Winston Churchill told his India Secretary that ?I hate Indians. They?re a beastly people, with a beastly religion.? Given this context, we can spare ? indeed ignore ? the jubilation amongst many Indians that Sunak now leads the erstwhile colonizer. Never mind that it never would have happened as the result of any general election, and even his own Conservative Party membership preferred to scrape the bottom of their barrel to proffer Truss. The new prime minister knows that given another chance they?ll go for Braverman, which is why the extraordinarily polarizing daughter of Assagao is back as Home Secretary. It?s interesting to see how close to the bone her most recent jibe about ?tofu-eating wokerati? strikes her boss as well. At this point, it?s not quite clear which of these limitlessly ambitious young British Indians will wind up with the winning hand. I really liked how Rana Dasgupta cut to the core of what?s happening on his Facebook account. The award-winning author ? his upcoming *After Nations* ?considers the future of global political organization? ? wrote that ?we have reached a point where the people who are capable of winning elections are, for that very reason, incapable of running the country - and vice versa. So it is almost impossible to create a plausible union between the nation-state - which increasingly obeys inhuman purposes directly at odds with those of its citizens - and a human "leader". This is a situation of sheer panic. All our political capacities are invested in the nation-state, and if that monopoly crumbles, we are left with nothing.? At the juncture Dasgupta was writing, just one week ago, there was an increasing clamour to ?Bring Back Boris? and reinvest the recently disgraced and deposed former prime minister. He noted that, ?We call out for a patriarch. All the better if he is corrupt - because this is no moment for legality and restraint! We need him to lie and cheat and murder on our behalf. We need him to trample every nicety, every law, every female spirit standing in our way. That is the unhinged nature of our present political arrangements. It is not that people are stupid. A good system does not collapse because of people's varying intellectual powers. It is that people are so squeezed out of history, that they are no longer guided by anything save their existential terror.? In the end, of course, Boris didn?t make it back. And so Sunak, in an unprecedented *Balle Balle *ballyhoo including lots of ludicrous American-style breast-beating about the superior workings of British multculturalism. Here?s Sajid Javid ? the Conservative Party MP who has previously served as both Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer ? with a typical tweet: ?Britain is the most successful multiracial democracy on earth and proud of this historic achievement.? It?s an odd claim to make about the very same country that just went through public paroxysms about the death of its hereditary monarch, along with the shocking suppression of all dissent about her legacy. ??Diversity? is a meaningless term unless it heralds real change?, wrote Priyamvada Gopal in *Al Jazeera*. ?Even Mahatma Gandhi noted that his patriotism did not mean people could ?be crushed under the heel of Indian princes, if only the English retire?. Sunak is very much a British Indian prince, not just privately educated and extremely wealthy but an ideologically committed activist for the riches and privileges of Britain?s small oligarch class to be bolstered at the expense of the many. Britain is reeling under a crushing dozen years of Tory rule during which wealth has been concentrated in the hands of a record number of billionaires. Sunak only promises more of the same if not worse.? Gopal is on the faculty at Cambridge University, and among the clearest-eyed analysts of the UK today, which is why she?s often caricatured in that country?s deeply disgraceful, openly ethno-nationalist right-wing media. As she points out, ?Sunak represents the triumph of a carefully managed and trivialised diversity that serves to conceal the reality of the unvarying oligarchy that Britain has become,? What is more, ?it is bizarre to invite people to set aside a politician?s politics to celebrate their ethnicity. It?s like asking people to set aside a fashion designer?s style or a chef?s ability to cook in judging their work. But we must also reject the racist notion that the content of what a Black or Asian leader offers is not relevant to questions of social change. What a Britain utterly broken by Tory rule desperately needs are not diverse shades of exploitation and inequality but the welcome multiplicity of shared wellbeing. That is a long way off.? I also appreciated Pankaj Mishra?s scathing, no-holds-barred commentary in *The Guardian*: ?Sunak?s carefully trimmed career pathways to plutocratic chic make him resemble a human pinstripe rather more than the devout Hindu in loincloth ? Mahatma Gandhi ? who helped the sun set on the British empire. Sunak?s deeper pieties are revealed by his professional choices: credential-stockpiling and network-formation at Winchester, Oxford (PPE) and Stanford (MBA), stints at Goldman Sachs, and then bank-raiding and tax-dodging hedge fund firms, directorship of his billionaire father-in-law?s investment company, a US green card and eager membership of a traditionally nasty political party.? Mishra refers to Braverman and Sunak devastatingly appropriately as ?overpromoted Tories?, noting that ?winning was always easier for a people who spoke English relatively well and avoided political conflict while pursuing their obsessions with educational achievement and social mobility.? And, ?in particular, twice-migrants, such as Patel?s and Sunak?s [and Braverman?s] families, have been much better placed than any diasporic community to benefit from three decades of neoliberal globalisation under American and British auspices?Sunak, now married to a Indian citizen richer than King Charles, shares his glossy biography with many men (and some women) of Indian ancestry who today own the world?s biggest industries and run major banks, hedge funds and Silicon Valley companies.? The bottom line, according to Mishra: ?What?s truly unprecedented about the new occupant of 10 Downing Street ? who held on to his green card while living next door with his then-non-dom wife to Boris Johnson, and who owns a penthouse in Santa Monica, and may soon jet off to sunny California ? is not his showy Hinduism or brown skin, but his multiple identities as a ferociously networked transnational that allow him to operate simultaneously in several countries. That this ?citizen of everywhere?, a devout Hindu in a tie and cashmere hoodie, should now be chosen to mollify financial markets and caress the Brexit fantasy of absolute sovereignty says a great deal about the ideological dementia of the Tory party? But we should be in no doubt about what an immoral and inept political class wants us to celebrate: ?Asian representation? leading a cruel Tory programme of mass impoverishment.? ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 16:35:52 +0530 From: Rajan Parrikar <parri...@gmail.com> To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] Reading About Rishi (O Heraldo, 30/10/2022) Message-ID: <CAGNVRCux4AE3zcD2u7Zrmv-Kr8J-JuHSU+RSzmckXaWHPD=i...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" >I also appreciated Pankaj Mishra?s scathing, no-holds-barred commentary in *The Guardian*: >?Sunak?s carefully trimmed career pathways to plutocratic chic make him resemble a human >pinstripe rather more than the devout Hindu in loincloth ? Mahatma Gandhi ? who helped >the sun set on the British empire. Sunak?s deeper pieties are revealed by his professional >choices: credential-stockpiling and network-formation at Winchester, Oxford (PPE) and >Stanford (MBA), stints at Goldman Sachs, and then bank-raiding and >tax-dodging hedge fund firms, directorship of his billionaire father-in-law?s investment >company, a US green card and eager membership of a traditionally nasty political party.? Quite. Rishi should have known his place and the fruits of his karma which require that he plod through life as the little brown factotum in a caxtti, his very presence spelling meekness and subservience. Instead, the twerp crashed the elite party, darkened the halls of Oxford and Stanford, and then weaseled his way into the upper echelons of Goldman Sachs attired in Savile Row suits. How dare he? Only Mishra's white masters are allowed entry into these passages. What the Hinduphobic excrement in human form Pankaj Mishra truly hates is that Rishi wears his Hinduness on his sleeve - literally (the thread on his wrist is there for all to see). That Rishi's brahmin wife is unapologetically brahmin and rich and successful in her own right. That Rishi's is by all conventional metrics a magnificent success story. Don't believe your lying eyes. Believe what I think you should believe. All the parents reading this - please don't aspire to provide the best education for your kids or hope for their success. Instead they should be like Pankaj Mishra - a self-flagellating sad pile of excrement, driven by hate of your own ancestors and their spiritual tradition. <The rest of the VM's garbage shoveled away.> Best, r End of Goanet Digest, Vol 17, Issue 524 ***************************************