Goanet Digest, Vol 21, Issue 55

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Today's Topics:

   1. Listen to: Dushyant Dave, senior advocate and former Supreme
      Court Bar Association president, deliver the "27th Dr. Asghar Ali
      Engineer Memorial Lecture" (Vivek Pinto)
   2. DREAMS DO COME TRUE (Aires Rodrigues)
   3. Listen to: "Springsteen (Bruce, nicknamed The Boss) Releases
      ?Streets of Minneapolis,? a Song Protesting ICE" (Vivek Pinto)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:32:43 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Listen to: Dushyant Dave, senior advocate and former
	Supreme Court Bar Association president, deliver the "27th Dr. Asghar
	Ali Engineer Memorial Lecture"
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Published by: Centre for Study of Society and Secularism
Date: January 30, 2026
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLD_3C3tkK8
*Note:* This lecture is in English and the transcript is embedded in the
source.

"Theme: "The Constitution as Envisioned by Its Framers and Its Contemporary
Interpretation"
Lecture chaired by Sr. Adv. Aspi Chinoy, delivered at  Yashwantrao Chavan
Centre, Nariman Point, Mumbai."


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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:03:11 +0000
From: Aires Rodrigues <[email protected]>
To: goanet <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: [Goanet] DREAMS DO COME TRUE
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To be an Advocate was my childhood dream, which became a reality. It was a
rare privilege to appear on various public issues before the High Court of
Bombay at Goa and the Supreme Court of India as a student much before
commencing law studies.

Raising public issues over the decades has not been an easy task. However,
one has to have the spine to speak out against things that are wrong and
nothing should deter one?s commitment to highlight any injustice or
illegality that is seen. As Martin Luther King said, ?There comes a time
when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular,
but one must take it because conscience tells one it is right?.

I have been blessed to have been able to interact with every Chief Minister
of Goa including the very first, Dayanand Bandodkar and successive
Governors over the years. Interacting with Chief Secretaries, IAS officers
and the rest of the bureaucracy at all levels was all a very invaluable
learning experience.

I am content that over the decades and now as an Overseas Citizen of India
(OCI) I am able in my own little way to serve society without holding any
position of power. The ethos of life is that true fulfilment does not come
from what we get, it comes from what we give, with gratitude as the most
single important ingredient of a successful and fulfilled life.

We all need to be a beacon of hope to others that in this short life of
ours, much can be achieved against all the odds and challenges. With
determination, self-belief and in the quest for justice and truth any
obstacles can be overcome without fear or in trepidation.

In life, one must be confident and zealous. With a positive frame of mind,
one can handle complex and difficult situations, if we firmly believe that
in life nothing is impossible.


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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:52:33 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Listen to: "Springsteen (Bruce, nicknamed The Boss)
	Releases ?Streets of Minneapolis,? a Song Protesting ICE"
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By: Michaela Towfighi
Published in: *The New York Times*
Date: January 28, 2026
The lyrics criticize President Trump and include references to Alex Pretti
and Renee Good, who were fatally shot by federal agents this month.

Bruce Springsteen released a new song, ?Streets of Minneapolis,? on
Wednesday in response to two fatal shootings
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/politics/second-ice-shooting-minneapolis.html>
 by federal immigration enforcement agents in the city this month.

Mr. Springsteen dedicated the song to ?the people of Minneapolis, our
innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.? He
said he wrote it <https://www.instagram.com/p/DUD_Dl2ETeh/> on Saturday,
the same day immigration agents killed Mr. Pretti, a 37-year-old I.C.U.
nurse
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/alex-jeffrey-pretti-icu-nurse-minneapolis-shooting.html>
, during a confrontation. Ms. Good, a 37-year-old mother of three
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/us/rennee-good-ice-shooting-minnesota.html>
, was killed by an ICE agent on Jan. 7.

The lyrics describe the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, where a surge
of federal agents has led to widespread protests, with people like Mr.
Pretti recording confrontations with their cellphones and blowing whistles
to alert others to the presence of immigration agents.

?Their claim was self-defense, sir,? Springsteen sings of the Trump
administration?s justification for the shootings. ?Just don?t believe your
eyes / It?s our blood and bones / And these whistles and phones / Against
Miller and Noem?s dirty lies.?

Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Trump, described Mr. Pretti as an
?assassin,? and Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said Ms. Good
had engaged in ?domestic terrorism.?

Video analysis by The New York Times
<https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010668660/new-video-analysis-reveals-flawed-and-fatal-decisions-in-shooting-of-pretti.html>
 has contradicted these descriptions. While Mr. Pretti was legally carrying
a holstered gun, he never reached for the weapon
<https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010668660/new-video-analysis-reveals-flawed-and-fatal-decisions-in-shooting-of-pretti.html>
 and had been disarmed by agents before they shot him. Ms. Good had parked
a vehicle in the street and was beginning to drive away
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/video/ice-shooting-renee-good-minneapolis-videos.html>
 when an agent standing near one of the front wheels shot her.

In the song, Mr. Springsteen also calls Mr. Trump a ?king? with a ?private
army.?

Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement that ?the
Trump administration is focused on encouraging state and local Democrats to
work with federal law enforcement officers on removing dangerous criminal
illegal aliens from their communities ? not random songs with irrelevant
opinions and inaccurate information.?

Mr. Springsteen has used his lyrics and shows to make political statements
for decades. In 2000, he released ?American Skin (41 Shots)? about the
killing of Amadou Diallo
<https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/05/nyregion/officers-in-bronx-fire-41-shots-and-an-unarmed-man-is-killed.html>
 by four New York City police officers. This month, Mr. Springsteen
dedicated a performance
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/arts/music/springsteen-ice-minneapolis.html>
 of his song ?The Promised Land,? a working-class anthem, to Ms. Good. At
that performance, he likened the administration?s actions in Minneapolis to
?Gestapo tactics against our fellow citizens.?

Mr. Springsteen has been a vocal critic of Mr. Trump across his two terms,
calling him the ?most dangerous candidate for president in my lifetime? in
an endorsement video for former Vice President Kamala Harris?s campaign in
2024.

Last year, the singer released a six-track EP of songs and political
commentary
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/arts/music/bruce-springsteen-e-street-band-ep-trump.html>
 from performances in Manchester, England. That release begins with remarks
that the United States is ?in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and
treasonous administration.?

In response, Mr. Trump wrote on social media that Mr. Springsteen ?ought to
KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT? and called for a ?major investigation? into the artist.

Other musicians have joined Mr. Springsteen in speaking out against ICE.
After Ms. Good was killed, the singer Billie Eilish reposted a graphic
online that called the agency a ?federally funded and supported terrorist
group,? and after Mr. Pretti?s killing, she goaded her fellow celebrities,
?u gonna speak up?? The singer Olivia Rodrigo called ICE?s actions
?unconscionable? in a social media post.

Tom Morello, the guitarist for Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave,
announced he would hold a concert in Minneapolis on Friday, saying that the
proceeds would be donated to Ms. Good?s and Mr. Pretti?s families.

Last year, the rapper Bad Bunny, who is from Puerto Rico, refused to
perform in the mainland United States, saying he feared that ICE would
target his concerts for immigration raids. Ms. Noem has said that
immigration agents will be ?all over? the Super Bowl
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/arts/music/ice-bad-bunny-super-bowl.html>
 in California next month, when Bad Bunny is set to perform the halftime
show.

In October, when the country star Zach Bryan released new lyrics
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/arts/music/zach-bryan-song-kristi-noem.html>warning
that ICE agents would ?come bust down your door,? Ms. Noem said the song
?attacks individuals who are just trying to make our streets safe.? Mr.
Bryan later said the lyrics had been ?misconstrued.?
Michaela Towfighi is a Times arts and culture reporter and a member of the
2025-26 Times Fellowship
<https://www.nytco.com/careers/newsroom/newsroom-fellowship/> class, a
program for early career journalists.


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