Goanet Digest, Vol 21, Issue 309

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Today's Topics:

   1. Read: "RSS Claims to be Apolitical. Priyank Kharge's Letter
      Seeks to Expose the Lie." (Vivek Pinto)
   2. Read: "How India's Freedom Struggle Shaped Its Development
      Strategy" (Vivek Pinto)
   3. Yoga and Indias Yoga and India's Priorities Yoga is an
      age-old Indian practice that has gained worldwide recognition and
      appreciation. Its benefits have even been demonstrated in
      extraordinary circumstances, including through the experiences of
      India's first astronaut, Rakesh Sharma. Efforts by the highest
      authorities in the country to popularize yoga have undoubtedly
      drawn focused national and international attention. However, what
      many Indians urgently need are basic necessities: clean drinking
      water, nutritious food, safe medicines, unpolluted air, adequate
      housing for the poor, uninterrupted electricity, well-maintained
      roads that reduce accidents, and meaningful employment
      opportunities for both the educated and the less educated. The
      growing enthusiasm for yoga alone cannot ensure a happy, healthy,
      and dignified life. While yoga may contribute to physical and
      mental well-being, it is not a substitute for addressing
      fundamental social and economic needs. Making yoga compu...
      (Nelson Lopes)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:00:02 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "RSS Claims to be Apolitical. Priyank Kharge's
	Letter Seeks to Expose the Lie."
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By: Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay [Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay is a journalist and author
whose books include *Narendra Modi: The Man, The Times and The RSS: Icons
of the Indian Right*.]
Published in: *The Wire*
Date: June 22, 2026
Source:
https://thewire.in/politics/rss-claims-to-be-apolitical-priyank-kharges-letter-seeks-to-expose-the-li
e
*NOTE*: Please access the source to read the entire story.

"The  RSS claim of being a ?cultural organisation? has been one of the most
intensely debated subjects in modern Indian politics."

"The controversy generated by the letter of Karnataka home minister,
Priyank Kharge, addressed to Mohan Bhagwat, sarsanghchalak of Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS) could not have come at a worse time for the
organisation.

Kharge?s letter depicts the organisation as one that has chosen to be
outside those very regulatory structures it expects ordinary citizens,
NGOs, and civil society groups to strictly follow.

Kharge?s letter also underscores RSS?s duplicity and this has basis in its
annual reports <https://www.rss.org/pdf/Sarkarywah_Prativedan_2026_Eng.pdf>,
tabled and available publically. In these reports, the RSS shares details
about its strength ? number of shakhas, public rallies and other events
besides mass mobilisation drives of the RSS."


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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:05:39 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "How India's Freedom Struggle Shaped Its
	Development Strategy"
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By: Aditya Mukherjee [Aditya Mukherjee retired as Professor of Contemporary
History, Jawaharlal Nehru University.]
Published in:
*The Wire*Date: June 22, 2026
Source:
https://thewire.in/history/how-indias-freedom-struggle-shaped-its-development-strategy
*NOTE: *Please access the source to read the entire article.

"India witnessed one of the biggest revolutions of the 20th century, yet
there was no civil war or mass casualties ? that was the Nehruvian miracle."

"The following text is Aditya Mukherjee?s Sukhamoy Chakravarty Chair
Lecture at the Centre for Economic and Social Progress (CESP), Jawaharlal
Nehru University on ?The Historical Roots of India?s Development Strategy,?
delivered on September 23, 2025.

I would like to first thank the CESP, the leading Centre for Economic
Studies and Planning in the country for decades. I would also like to thank
Professor Praveen Jha for giving me the honour of delivering the Sukhamoy
Chakravarty Chair Lecture. We have all been beneficiaries of Professor
Sukhamoy Chakravarty and his great scholarship. He was in fact, as Praveen
would know, often compared with Amartya Sen for his brilliance. The
difference was that Chakravarty gave up a purely academic career and chose
to play an important role in the shaping of India?s development strategy.
He advised the government over a very long period of time. He played a very
important role in the evolution of India?s development strategy over time,
apart from writing about it very brilliantly."


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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:45:18 +0530
From: Nelson Lopes <[email protected]>
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!"
	<[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Yoga and Indias Yoga and India's Priorities Yoga is
	an age-old Indian practice that has gained worldwide recognition and
	appreciation. Its benefits have even been demonstrated in
	extraordinary circumstances, including through the experiences of
	India's first astronaut, Rakesh Sharma. Efforts by the highest
	authorities in the country to popularize yoga have undoubtedly drawn
	focused national and international attention. However, what many
	Indians urgently need are basic necessities: clean drinking water,
	nutritious food, safe medicines, unpolluted air, adequate housing for
	the poor, uninterrupted electricity, well-maintained roads that reduce
	accidents, and meaningful employment opportunities for both the
	educated and the less educated. The growing enthusiasm for yoga alone
	cannot ensure a happy, healthy, and dignified life. While yoga may
	contribute to physical and mental well-being, it is not a substitute
	for addressing fundamental social and economic needs. Making yoga
	compu...
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Yoga and India's Priorities

Yoga is an age-old Indian practice that has gained worldwide recognition
and appreciation. Its benefits have even been demonstrated in extraordinary
circumstances, including through the experiences of India's first
astronaut, Rakesh Sharma. Efforts by the highest authorities in the country
to popularize yoga have undoubtedly drawn focused national and
international attention.

However, what many Indians urgently need are basic necessities: clean
drinking water, nutritious food, safe medicines, unpolluted air, adequate
housing for the poor, uninterrupted electricity, well-maintained roads that
reduce accidents, and meaningful employment opportunities for both the
educated and the less educated.

The growing enthusiasm for yoga alone cannot ensure a happy, healthy, and
dignified life. While yoga may contribute to physical and mental
well-being, it is not a substitute for addressing fundamental social and
economic needs.

Making yoga compulsory through official diktats and projecting it as a
panacea for all societal problems is neither desirable nor democratic.
Genuine appreciation and practice of yoga can flourish only when it remains
voluntary rather than enforced.

Nelson Lopes
Chinchinim
Nelson Lopes
Chinchinim
https://lopesnelsonnat.wordpress.com


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