There is this news floating around - "Asians are less ‘humane’ – Ukrainian security chief" where he says Russians are North Asians and thus less humane. For me personally the anger at being calles inhuman is infinitesmally less than the joy of someone acknowledging North Asia exists. 🤣 Everyone talks about South Asia, South East Asia and "Middle East" Asia but never about North Asia or West Asia. We have one direction reclaimed friends. Let us fight to let every call Middle East Asia what it actually is - West Asia. 🤣 Our Asia is not some freak continent without North and West.
Why does someone else refusing to use animals cause you so much personal distress?
Perhaps you are experiencing inner conflict. On the one hand you probably love animals and believe that you’re a good person, but on the other hand, you might be involved in decisions and practices that violate your own personal standards about not harming others.
What is this telling you about yourself and your place in the world?
The presence of Indians, from India, in Fediverse is insignificant as on today. Most of us are happy with X and social media tools from Meta. Even the number of posts from existing users, in India, is very low though many of them seem to be active in the above mentioned social media sites.
What can be done to improve the situation? There are no carrots here.
guys, please start advocating people to get on signal/xmpp/matrix for their own good in this increasingly fascist environment. Even if your friends dont agree, the word needs to get out asap, nothing is a rhetoric anymore. Everyone in this group already has seen whats happening inside and outside our countries and how persecutions are pursued.
In the face of increasing cyber and malware attacks on defence as well as critical infrastructure across the country, the Defence Ministry has decided to replace the Microsoft Operating System (OS) in all computers connected to the Internet with a new OS, Maya, based on open-source Ubuntu developed locally.
We can live ayurvedically and substitute natural, non-dairy milks and cheeses, avocado, raw almonds, and raw tahini for stolen animal breast milk, cheese, butter, and ghee.
In this way, we can experience the benefits of Ayurveda without harming anybody.
This is a request to all FOSS projects who only use matrix for communicating with the community.
Please consider bridging your rooms with IRC or XMPP.
India has banned Element, the most widely used Matrix client. I know it's just a client, but to be safe it's wiser to stay away from matrix for a while. So please help us in this regard.
Hello Bangalore! I’m passing through Bengaluru and would love to meet new friends between Jan 2-8.
I live in Berkeley, California, and run the monthly Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour.
I’d love to connect with people around public history, digital humanities, open source, tech and activism, transit/urbanism, left/progressive politics, books or bookselling.
No for real though, where the fuck are indians on the #internet ? reddit? twitter (fuck that demographic of indians) ? facebook ?
I do know that a huge chunk of indians are on #instagram, but what the fuck? why are there so many less of us here on the fedi? the #tumblr side is just mostly bollywood or soap opera stuff which im not really into, so...
Spicy Kongunad kozhi kuzhambu as per Kannamma Cooks 🫶🏽 a fantastic and quite easy recipe, even for an amateur like me, with measurements meticulously listed.
Got mildly scalded when making the fried spice paste because the mixer wasn't closed right and I got splashed with the hot oily water when I switched it on 🔥 Just Mars squaring the Moon, not a big deal, just enough to make me pay attention.
Tagging @skinnylatte because we were talking about this 🍃
a wonky jury akin to a quiet, disharmonious ancient greek theater choir, consisting of jason grunebaum, daisy rockwell, shahnaz habib, anton hur, arunava sinha, jeffrey zuckerman and pia sawhney
the jury would first award the prize to nandini krishnan and charu nivedita, only to withdraw it later:
under public pressure, the returns-oriented, mission-focused technology venture capital firm felt the need to re-orient to keep their mission focussed, so they issued a note > this note ventures to say daring things, such as:> Based on laws and guidelines for publication within the United States and other Western countries, the AS prize and legal team determined it was well within the team’s rights and obligations to decide whether the offending material would be suitable for the Armory Square award. ASV and the AS Prize jury, at all times, have acted in an objective manner and approached the process in good faith.
this served as basis to reject awarding the prize to nandini krishnan and charu nivedita for several reasons:> - references to under age sex;
the name of an actual real life high school in Delhi with descriptions of sexual acts between high school students;
passages that advocated for the minimum age of consent for sex in India to be reduced to age 14 (from the statutory legal age of 18);
other passages that contained criticism of the King of Thailand and implied that he chose to ignore under age prostitution, because his economy was built on prostitution and would otherwise collapse;
and made similar comment about the economies of Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines (i.e. stating that millions would starve to death in these countries if under age prostitution was prosecuted).
in the field of prizes for literary works, i have never seen anything as bad as this! the reasoning is not consistent in itself!
charu nivedita published nandini krishnan's statement in his blog
Around 70% of the previously forested Amazonian land has been converted to pastures. Much of the remaining 30% converted to croplands, mostly to grow feed for cows, buffaloes, chickens, pigs, sheep, and other animals who are farmed and killed by humans all over the world.
Plantbased diets for dogs, cats and humans would free up vast amounts of land, allowing rewilding and biodiversity recovery.
On every video that discusses the EVM / VVPAT machines, YouTube pastes the 'context' bubble peddling the official line on these machines. Even the search result page for 'vvpat' thrusts this 'context' in your face. Looks like the global SM platforms are also not free from the clutches of this regime. #IndianElections#MastIndia#YouTube@mastodonindians
In Charts | The declining popularity of engineering courses
"According to data from the India Skills Report 2022, almost half of India's engineering undergraduates are not employable. The percentage of employable talent who completed BE or B Tech courses in 2022 stood at just 55 percent. Meanwhile, estimates by the World Economic Forum (WEF) show that only one in five engineering graduates from the country are employable."
#lemmy is a weird project. While the software is fantastic, the development team is heavily endorsing of genocidal propaganda (yogthos ahem) on their main instance and neglectful of who they list on their join-lemmy page as well, as theyve openly listed an indian #islamaphobic/ #queerphobic instance called bakchodi.
If you are in Goa (or, if you need a good reason to be in Goa) do come for a discussion of my book, The Nitopadesha, on Saturday 14th October, 10:30am at International Centre Goa.
Indian origin Hindu guy who considers himself white and admires Nazi ideology crashes a truck into the white house to seize power.
Friends from SEA, do you have elite upper class people like these who consider themselves white and not Asian?
Btw... this is not the first instsnce of an upper caste Indian claiming "whiteness". There have been court cases by men requesting white status as early as pre first world war days.
We wanted to make something good tonight so we made Gatte Ki Subzi together ❤️
A Rajasthani dish made of besan dumplings in yogurt sauce, it is one of our favorite dishes.
We are thinking about doing something more elaborate like this every Thursday evening as a way to start the weekend a bit early (since we both have WFH on Fridays 😊).
#MastIndia : is it possible for people still on #Bigsocial (such as instagram) to try and get the indian LGBTQ+ community pages on there to also set up pages on #pixelfed and #mastodon and help them understand the #fedi ?