Goanet Digest, Vol 21, Issue 157

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Today's Topics:

   1. Read: "Noel De Souza, the hidden Indian on the Hollywood
      studio lot" (Vivek Pinto)
   2. Watch: "President Trump Has Reduced the War to a Joke"
      (Vivek Pinto)
   3. Listen to: Aqsa Shaikh, Prof. of Community Medicine, Jamia
      Hamdard - "Gender is Not Between the Legs, It?s in the Heart and
      Mind" (Vivek Pinto)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:31:28 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "Noel De Souza, the hidden Indian on the
	Hollywood studio lot"
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	<CAH3OY9zDbYrYKNpgjVWehbMvPz=1BN45icj5LDokEd+33Yr4tA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
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By: Udita Jhunjhunwala
Published in: *Scroll*
Date: March 24, 2026
Source:
https://scroll.in/reel/1091594/noel-de-souza-the-hidden-indian-on-the-hollywood-studio-lot
*Note: *Please access the source to read the entire article.

"From bit parts in films and shows to chatting with the stars, the
centenarian has had quite the journey."


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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:43:19 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Watch: "President Trump Has Reduced the War to a
	Joke"
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	<CAH3OY9z5FMzkusSFBqiuuxMV-Pa0Bjooy3vOgJvWOnW+_8rurg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
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By: Pravin Sawhney, Director, FORCE Research Institute
Published in: *FORCE Magazine*
Date: March 24, 2026
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0c8ziZebvY
Note: This video is in English and the transcript is embedded in the source.


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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:40:07 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Listen to: Aqsa Shaikh, Prof. of Community Medicine,
	Jamia Hamdard - "Gender is Not Between the Legs, It?s in the Heart and
	Mind"
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	<CAH3OY9wZCh2rZV5+3YX2PYCQx=fx6s-TPuFH0cxDD6fJb38dMw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
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By: Karan Thapar
Published in: *The Wire*
Date: March 24, 2026
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIwEbJ5_0l8
*Note:* This video is in English and the transcript is embedded in the
source.

"In an interview to explain the deep and serious concerns India?s
transgender community has with the recently introduced Transgender Persons
Amendment Bill, Prof. Aqsa Shaikh, Professor of Community Medicine at Jamia
Hamdard University, points out that the key error the government has made
in the amendment bill is to assume that gender lies between the legs of an
individual whereas, in fact, it lies in the hearts and minds of
individuals. As Prof. Shaikh puts it: 'Gender cannot be reduced to anatomy
or verified through physical examination: it is a deeply felt sense of
self.'

Prof. Shaikh points out that the amendment bill, which was introduced in
the Lok Sabha on the 13th of March, is 'a fundamental shift that undermines
the core of what it means to be a transgender person in law. Under this
formulation, tens of thousands of individuals who currently identify, and
are legally recognized, as transgender may find themselves excluded. Their
identities would not merely be ignored; they would be erased.'?


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