Notices tagged with india, page 5

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Yoshida Hiroshi woodblock prints from his 1930s series - India and South East Asia
following his visit

Jami Masjid–Delhi (Derii no Juma Mashiddo)
1931

#Woodblock #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe #India

Hello,

I’m deeply touched by the support I’ve received from the Fediverse community. Without you, I wouldn’t be able to do what I’m doing now. Thank you for your humanity.

Recently, Bangladesh lifted its ban on major social media sites like Facebook and WhatsApp, but only after they agreed to comply with the government’s demands. You know what that means.

ISPs and IIGs have been instructed (unofficially, as far as I know) to continue DPI operations and block all VPN traffic. However, I’ll keep playing this game of hide and seek to avoid speed throttling. For now, changing protocols and ports is working. I’m using Shadowsocks, AmneziaWG, Xray with Reality, and Wireguard. I also plan to run Tor bridges.

Some people have expressed interest in a Tor-enabled Fediverse instance for the Bangladeshi community to reduce reliance on Facebook and Twitter (X). I’ve decided to use Akkoma with the Mangane frontend.

Unfortunately, I need more funds than I currently have to continue my operations. If you can, please consider donating. Every dollar counts.

Here’s a brief update on the current situation:

The police and ruling party members are conducting house-to-house searches for students, similar to Nazi tactics. Anyone who participated in peaceful protests or voiced support is likely unable to sleep at night.

The government is trying to portray the movement as an anti-government conspiracy by political parties. So far, all their plans have failed. Yesterday, they banned Jamaat-e-Islami, the country’s third-largest political party, which is considered a liberal democratic organization by the USA and most of the world, except India. The government expected a violent response to use as a distraction from the ongoing student movement and massacres committed by law enforcement. Fortunately, Jamaat recognized the trap and only issued a statement opposing the decision. Most opposition parties immediately voiced support for Jamaat-e-Islami, increasing their support. It’s also unconstitutional to ban such a large party without a public vote, but I’ve never seen a fair, non-rigged election in Bangladesh.

I’m grateful to Jamaat-e-Islami for taking the hit and acting wisely.

For those wondering, the student movement was about reforming the quota system in government jobs, not about hunger or food. However, the government had other plans. They decided to kill and arrest as many students as possible. Nearly 89% of those arrested (over 2000 people) by Dhaka Metropolitan Police have no political affiliation. Consider it a form of civil disobedience.

That’s all for now. I need your support to continue helping people in need, providing tools to protect their privacy, and helping them bypass censorship. We would also be grateful if you could help the Bangladeshi community join the Fediverse.

Please help us fight surveillance and censorship.

Donate here: https://bio.link/mitexleo

Thank you.

#StepDownHasina #SaveBangladeshiStudents #BangladeshBleeding #SaveTheStudents #SaveDemocracy #HumanRights #UN #USA #Bangladesh #Fediverse #Politics #Democracy #India #SouthAsia

Every year #Kanwariyas destroy what little peace and quiet we can get in #India. They make our traffic even worse, indulge in hooliganism, beat up people, destroy public property, play music on loudspeakers at crazy volumes, and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

#Religion is a plague on mankind

After Tokyo, Blinken and Austin will hold security talks with the #Philippines re: #WestPHSea.
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The talks attended by #Australia's #PennyWong, #India's #SubrahmanyamJaishankar, #Japan's #YokoKamikawa and #AntonyBlinken from the #US, follow security discussions between #Tokyo and #Washington on the region's strategic challenges. #China

#Quad foreign ministers meet in Tokyo for talks on #MaritimeSecurity, #cyber
https://www.rappler.com/world/global-affairs/quad-foreign-ministers-tokyo-talks-maritime-security-cyber-defense/

Back toot: https://noc.social/@Norobiik/112863954607550173

I'm pretty sure #JDVance wants this shared with all your #MAGA friends.

JD Vance and Usha Chilukuri exchange vows at an outdoor ceremony; image found on threads

#Politics #2024Election #Democrats #MAGA #GOP #Republicans #Dictator #Harris #Memes #India #Racism #USA

#Vance’s parents immigrated to the US from southern #India, settling in San Diego in the 1980s. Her father came from a family of prominent #academics, a relative told the Indian Express,…“I always knew that she would excel academically & in any profession…it runs in the family. Her great grandfather, her grandfather, her father….”

Her father is an #engineer & her mother a #microbiologist. Both are academics: Vance’s mother is a provost at UC San Diego, & her father lectures at San Diego State.

The decimation of India's vultures led to deadly bacteria & infections, causing about half a million human deaths per year over five years.

"The vulture collapse in India provides a ..stark example of the type of hard-to-reverse & unpredictable costs to humans that can come from the loss of a species.”

For the Parsi Zoroastrian community in #Bombay & beyond, it has all but destroyed an eco-friendly system of disposing the dead

#Vultures #Biodiversity #India

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c28e2pvzn3lo

#Switzerland mandates #OpenSource software for all public software!

This makes perfect sense. Public software should be transparent. #India could have taken a lead on this, but our digital public infrastructure is mostly closed-source - with predictable consequences. 🙄

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-open-source-law-switzerland

Courtly Ladies (12) & a Child Gather at a Fountain in a Lush Landscape in this c1770 CE #Mughal #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Farrukhabad #Awadh #India now at The Metropolitan #Museum of #Art USA
#TheMet

A Tree with Ripened #Mango Fruit (the King of Fruits) can be seen on the right

#IndianHeritage #MastoArt #IndianHistory #Histodons #Painting #Heritage #History #ArtHistory #Artist #artoftheday #Paintings #Entertainment #LeisureTime

@dwnews_bot

"The ejection of #journalists is likely to further jeopardize relations between #India and #China"

https://mastodon.social/@dwnews_bot/110509426259547539

While true, this issue must be seen in the much larger geostrategic picture of #Sino-Indian national interests:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110181439520474931

🇮🇳🇷🇺 NDTV television in #India reported on July 9 that about 20 Indian nationals who are fighting with #Russia's armed forces in Ukraine will return home soon.

https://www.rferl.org/a/indians-fighting-ukraine-russia-return/33027769.html

While key players including #India, #SaudiArabia, #SouthAfrica and the #UnitedArabEmirates opted out of signing the final communique from this weekend’s #Ukraine #PeaceSummit 80 of the 90 or so countries in attendance did sign up to the document.

Ukraine peace summit says 'dialogue between all parties' needed to end war
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jun/16/russia-ukraine-war-peace-summit-enters-second-day-as-west-looks-to-put-pressure-on-russia?page=with:block-666ed8e48f08cd19f68f8170#block-666ed8e48f08cd19f68f8170

The #ASEAN members #Singapore & the #Philippines signed btw. Not surprised Thailand didn't as #China has great influence there.

As to why Indonesia declined to sign, we'll probably get to know why in the next two weeks 🤷🏻♂️
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#SaudiArabia, #India, #SouthAfrica, #Thailand, #Indonesia, #Mexico and the #UnitedArabEmirates were among countries participating at a summit on peace for #Ukraine that did not sign a final communique.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jun/16/russia-ukraine-war-peace-summit-enters-second-day-as-west-looks-to-put-pressure-on-russia?page=with:block-666ed7ea8f08cd19f68f8168#block-666ed7ea8f08cd19f68f8168

#Russia has had strong ties with #India since the #ColdWar, and #Delhi’s importance as a key trading partner for #Moscow has grown since #Russia invaded #Ukraine in February 2022.

The partnership between Moscow and Delhi has become fraught, however, since Russia started developing closer ties with India’s main rival, #China, because of the hostilities in Ukraine.

#India PM #Modi to meet Putin in first trip to Russia since Ukraine war began
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/05/india-pm-narendra-modi-vladimir-putin-russia-meeting

#BooksThatInfluencedYou
Day 17:

I have been busy with some shelves so belatedly, my recommendation for the fascinating (hi)story of the #Mongols and their early khans.

It introduced me to an amazing part of Mongolia's and #China’s, and subsequently #India's as well as Europe's history: the #ConquerorSeries.

Irish author #ConnIggulden is a master storyteller.

@mina @Neireh @MaJ1 @mattotcha @2ndStar @energiepirat @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @forthy42 @GreenFire

WILDPLASTIC engagiert sich in Indien und hat einen Film über die Abfallsituation dort gedreht. 13 Minuten, die einen Einblick geben, wie Kunststoffe gesammelt werden und auf welche Probleme die Menschen dabei stoßen.

Den Abfallsektor in Indien verstehen lernen:
Understanding the Waste Sector in India:

https://wildplastic.com/pages/lp-wildplastic-india-documentary?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=campaign&utm_campaign=Mastodon&tw_source=mastodon&tw_profile_id=01GZ3H3WH11MF5TSGX7QMV3C8G&tw_medium=campaign

#plastic #plastik #waste #müll #entsorgung #recycling #india #indien #wildplastic @wildplastic #wiederverwendung #umwelt #environment #earth #Kunststoff #Industrie

There are probably at least 50 journalists - nearly all journalists of color working in the global south - that I would rank as more deserving of being freed than #Assange.

For example,

- Huang Xueqin, a #Chinese feminist who covered #MeToo

- #Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj

- #Vietnamese pro-democracy reporter Pham Doan Trang

- Saudi journalist Nazeer Al-Majed.

Why don't their cases get as much attention?

#China #India #SaudiArabia #Vietnam #PressFreedom #Journalism

#Introduction Hi, I'm Lucy, known for #RobotWars, #GuildofMakers & gold boots!Am now researching a popular #science #PopSci #book to be #published in 2026 by Transworld (Penguin).

For a behind-the-scenes insight into what goes into the research (inc a #kite festival in #India, #bats in #Borneo & a #SolarEclipse in #Mexico) join my free-tier Patreon https://patreon.com/DrLucyRogers

When I'm in the UK I live on a #NarrowBoat.