By one of the great journalists of our time: By Vivek Menezes Yet another political star has risen in Goa’s diaspora, part of one of the most remarkable transnational success stories in the annals of migration. India’s smallest state is an almost insignificant little slice of the Konkan, and its population even more negligible in size, but its grand-daughters and grandsons across the oceans keep on having an outsized impact on the world. Leon Rebello is just 30, and the new “baby of the house” in the equivalent of the Lok Sabha of the Australian parliament, after winning the safe Liberal National Party seat of McPherson in Queensland on the Gold Coast. He will sit across the aisle from another dynamic young Goan political star, the Labor Party’s Zaneta Mascarenhas - herself just 44 - who won landslide re-election from Swan in Western Australia, at the other end of this vast, continent-sized country. In 2022, the only candidate of Indian origin to win out of 26 contests, and the f...
