Goanet Digest, Vol 21, Issue 174

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Today's Topics:

   1. Read: "When Anti-Conversion Laws Are Used With
      Disproportionate Severity to Target Minorities" (Vivek Pinto)
   2. Read: "Want to reduce your child?s screen dependence?
      Psychologists share five methods that actually work" (Vivek Pinto)
   3. Read: "Leander Paes joins Babul Supriyo, Mithun Chakraborty;
      Bengal?s ?celebrity defectors? list expands" (Vivek Pinto)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 17:43:40 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "When Anti-Conversion Laws Are Used With
	Disproportionate Severity to Target Minorities"
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By: Ajay K. Mehra [Ajay K. Mehra is a political scientist and a visiting
professor at the Centre for Multilevel Federalism. Earlier, he was Atal
Bihari Vajpayee Senior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New
Delhi, 2019-21 and Principal, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Evening College, Delhi
University (2018).]
Published in: *The Wire*
Date: April 1, 2026
Source:
https://thewire.in/communalism/when-anti-conversion-laws-are-used-with-disproportionate-severity-to-target-minorities
*Note:* Please access the source to read the entire article.

"These clearly majoritarian anti-conversion legislations act against
religious diversity and create prejudice within the public institutions."

"Articles 25-30 unambiguously establish religious freedom in [an] expansive
and transparent sense of the word for every citizen and each community of
India. ?Freedom of conscience and profession, practice and propagation of
religion? (Article 25), ?Freedom to manage religious affairs? (Article 26),
?Freedom as to payment of taxes for *promotion of any particular religion*?
{emphasis added} (Article 27), ?Freedom as to attendance at religious
instruction or religious worship in certain educational institutions
(Article 28), ?Protection of interests of minorities? (Article 29) and
?Right of minorities to establish educational institutions?. The extent and
nature of religious freedom enunciated by the relevant constitutional
provisions are explicit enough to question the clauses and the
implementation of most of the anti-conversion laws passed to date."


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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 19:52:44 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "Want to reduce your child?s screen
	dependence? Psychologists share five methods that actually work"
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	<CAH3OY9w7FDUsFTzW7nkzu2f6naw2a6jfD=1CBOFoT1=UwCeJHQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
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By: Jasmita Alexander
Published in: *The Telegraph* *Online*
Date: April 1, 2026
Source:
https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/lifestyle/effective-tips-to-reduce-your-childs-screen-time-according-to-psychologists/cid/2154023#goog_rewarded
*Note:* Please access the source to read the entire article

"As concerns around digital addiction rise, experts explain how to replace
screen time with meaningful, engaging alternatives"


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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 21:09:43 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "Leander Paes joins Babul Supriyo, Mithun
	Chakraborty; Bengal?s ?celebrity defectors? list expands"
Message-ID:
	<CAH3OY9wAPvt97LS=gRgbJ6fV5KaVTwd=M66HzwjdT797GE7z3Q-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
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By: Our Web Desk
Published in: *T**he Telegraph* *Online*
Date: April 1, 2026
Source:
https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/leander-paes-joins-babul-supriyo-mithun-chakraborty-bengal-celebrity-defectors-list-expands/cid/2154171#goog_rewarded
Note: Please access the source to read the entire article

"You?ve finally found your next Goa Chief Minister candidate, yet another
BOHIRAGOTO (outsider) parachuted into our state by BJP, says the TMC as
Tennis star joins saffron brigade"


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