Amidst some other rather pressing preoccupations, finally managed to find the time to see the interview. Much food for thought here (127 minutes of it!), and a few more viewings will be needed to process and analyse it.
But that's another story for another day. Meanwhile, it is clear that the initiators of this idea, the producers and crew -- as well as, of course, both the Parrikars in the title -- have obviously invested a lot of time, thought and effort in this venture. Others have also chipped in, by suggesting questions. I would have a suggestion for the producers, so that all this hard work gets the widest possible audience. Could they prepare transcripts of this interview and supply them to all the local newspapers published in the three languages widely spoken in Goa? While I have often heard the internet being hyped as the media frontier of the future, the reality as of today is that the digital divide in India is very marked. This is very much true of Goa too, which has one of the most literate, prosperous and technologically savvy populations of any part of India. If one is to reach a larger audience, the print media is vital. The newspapers would be able to scrutinise and use the transcripts to reach a much wider audience. Else, this may end up being just one more storm in a cyber-teacup of which we have at least three a day on Goanet, not to speak of other internet forums. :-) -- Question everything -- Karl Marx