Goanet Digest, Vol 21, Issue 262

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Today's Topics:

   1. Read: "?You're Unbelievable Modi ji ? first clearing forests,
      now lecturing on heat?" (Vivek Pinto)
   2. Read: "Shereen Ratnagar [former professor of Archaeology,
      Jawaharlal Nehru University] Always Spoke the Truth ? No Matter
      Who It Angered" (Vivek Pinto)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 01:23:24 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "?You're Unbelievable Modi ji ? first clearing
	forests, now lecturing on heat?"
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By: Our Web Desk
Published in: *The Telegraph Online*
Date: May 27, 2026
Source:
https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/unbelievable-clearing-forests-now-lecturing-on-heat-pm-modis-advisory-draws-criticism/cid/2162710#goog_rewarded
*Note:* Please access the source to read the entire article

"Social media users respond with humour and sarcasm, arguing that while
such precautions sound good in theory, India?s heat stress requires more
concrete government intervention."


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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 04:28:42 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "Shereen Ratnagar [former professor of
	Archaeology, Jawaharlal Nehru University] Always Spoke the Truth ? No
	Matter Who It Angered"
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	<CAH3OY9yeV0wmvhdL-R-RGXbyJaBNf8m=mQnaJKcA3oHwo=JW0Q-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
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By: Kurush F. Dalal
Published in: *The Wire*
Date: May 27, 2026
Source:
https://thewire.in/history/shereen-ratnagar-always-spoke-the-truth-no-matter-who-it-angered
*Note:* Please access the source to read the whole article

"She was always vocal in all things historical and archaeological, often
cutting through right-wing obfuscation with her sharp wit."

"Her whole life, Shereen had been an unabashed speaker of the truth as she
saw it, always being vocal in all things historical and archaeological,
often cutting through right-wing obfuscation with her sharp wit. She wrote
a scathing account of the inadequacies she saw in the Ayodhya excavations
with fellow overseer D. Mandal. The right-wingers were up in arms and she
also ran afoul of the judiciary, which was upset that a sub-judice matter
had been discussed in this apparently cavalier manner. Both the authors
were fined by the Allahabad High Court and all unsold copies of the
book, *Ayodhya:
Archaeology After Excavation*,
<https://www.academia.edu/21788096/30_January_2010_8_Clinching_Archaeological_Evidence_book_review_of_Ayodhya_Archaeology_after_Excavation_by_D_Mandal_and_Shereen_Ratnagar_in_Economic_and_Political_Weekly_Vol_44_No_5_pp_27_28>
 were withdrawn by the publishers."


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