Notices tagged with india, page 6

TL;DR: It is high time we considered providing serious encouragement to sub-junior and junior sportspersons, if India wants to prosper in international sports. Otherwise life of sub-junior and junior sportspersons will continue to be difficult and there will be no outcome in the internal sports arenas. It is a collective effort. Even the common local resident has a lot to contribute.

This is a request to all my fellow countrymen who can afford go that extra mile to support Indian sports.

If you really love Indian sports and want Indian sports to prosper at International level, please go and watch local competitive matches of sub-juniors and juniors wherever you stay. Please do not restrict yourself just to cricket. You may watch basketball, hockey, football, badminton, tennis, swimming, athletics, shooting, equestrian, fencing etc. Encourage the kids by offering small token gifts (vouchers, sports equipment etc.). Talk to them and positively suggest them how to overcome the obstacles. If possible, practically contribute towards removing their bottlenecks. For example, some of them may face challenges just to reach the sports arena. Pick up and drop them in your vehicle whenever possible or arrange for car pooling, if feasible.

Very few Indian sub-junior or junior sports trainees are able to get support from their parents and can traverse the journey in sports without much external help. The rest opt out due to lack of resources. I know many athletes who were forced to quit early and become coaches to make both ends meet.

How much an Indian family of an athlete needs to spend to reach up to the international level? Lets us consider Srihari Nataraj who, along with 14-year-old Dhinidhi Desinghu, will represent India in swimming at the Paris 2024 Olympics. There is interesting article titled "Srihari Nataraj and the cost of creating India’s best swimmer" though the article is nearly four years old. In that article, dated August 30 2019, we learn that:“We have spent nearly ₹8 lakh for Srihari’s two World Championships within the last one month or so, the senior worlds in Gwangju in July and the junior in Budapest, which ended a few days ago. We spend ₹70,000-80,000 every month for his swimming and have spent nearly ₹30 lakh for his sport over the last few years,” said Kalyani, a former Tamil Nadu junior volleyball player who hails from Pudukottai.The support from Government may come after later. Till then the family just has to burn cash without expecting any returns.

In addition to the above, the family has to provide an ecosystem for day to day support to balance sports training and school education. This only adds to the hardship and stress since one has to constantly juggle between school time table and sports time table and they will never remain aligned with each other..

How many middle class families can afford? The bigger question that rattles the minds of an Indian middle class family is whether it is worth pursuing sports without any support from the society and the Government at early formative stages.

#MastodonIndians #MastIndia #India #Sports #Athlete

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Well this is all going a bit shite for India. Rabada with scalp number 3.. #SouthAfrica #India #T20WorldCup

"...Juneja has been in Japan for almost 40 years, he brings a global perspective and ambition to a venerable snack firm [kaki-no-tane maker Kameda Seika]..."
"..he believes global success will come when they integrate the best of Indian and Japanese working styles"
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/2659/

"Lekh is originally an expert in microorganisms and fermentation. He came to Japan in 1984, and earned a PhD from Nagoya University"
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20211224/p2a/00m/0bu/047000c
#Japan #India #innovation

Great Nicobar Island Is a Paradise in Danger
A container port the Indian government plans for this remote island threatens unique Indigenous cultures and biodiversity #Biodiversity #GreatNicobar #India #Indigenous https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/remote-island-of-great-nicobar-threatened-by-container-terminal/

The Audacious Scheme to Reroute India’s Water

"Scientists and water policy experts, however, have doubts about the scheme’s scientific footing. They worry that the government hasn’t adequately accounted for the potential unintended consequences of moving such a large amount of water. Case in point, new research suggests the river interlinking project threatens to affect India’s seasonal monsoon."

#ClimateChange #Water #India #Science ##News #Environment

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/the-audacious-scheme-to-reroute-indias-water/

On #WorldMusicDay today, a #Nayika sings & plays her golden Vina, an Indian #MusicalInstrument

Todi Ragini #Raga
This illustration to a c1680 CE #Ragamala (Garland of Melodies) #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Deccan #India from the collection of Betsy Salinger was sold by Bonhams on 26th October 2022 for £25,000

#IndianHeritage #IndianClassicalMusic #Art #ArtHistory #Artist #History #MastoArt #Paintings #Histodons #IndianHistory #Music #Painting #artofmastodon #artoftheday #Heritage

Rains in #India are magnificent - truly something else. This year I feel like a character from #Lagaan, waiting for the monsoon to hit North India and bring us relief from this dreadful summer

Via @DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss & @sidarthadeb

Arundhati Roy Faces Anti-Terror Prosecution in #India as Modi Expands Crackdown on Critics

https://youtu.be/4PFESebZ1aM?si=8LCZcO903YkdRv-A #modi #bjp #HinduNationalism #news #fascism #kashmir #farright #dalit

More impressions of Delhi and Agra, which I just covered in my blog. Mughal architecture and much more, don't miss it :)

https://theflore.com/blog-posts/2024/06/13/delhi-agra-india

#photography #omsystem #india #travelblog #tajmahal

Multinationalism!

c1740 CE painting from #Surat #Gujarat of 'A #European Lady Resting on a Diwan, listening to a Female (#Persian) #Musician with an #African Youth Lounging before them

#Chinese #Paintings & Porcelain can be seen in the background

Sold by Lyonand Turnbull, Auction House of #London on 12 June for £175,201

#IndianHeritage #Art #Artist #MastoArt #Histodons #Heritage #IndianHistory #ArtHistory #Painting #BritishInIndia #China #Iran #Africa #India #Entertainment #Music

80 countries, including #Ukraine, and 4 European institutions signed the final joint communique of the #Switzerland peace summit on June 16, according to a #Kyiv Independent reporter on the ground.

Among the countries notably absent from the list of signatories are #India, #Armenia, #Brazil, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, #Thailand, #Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates.

https://kyivindependent.com/80-countries-4-european-institutions-sign-peace-summits-joint-communique/

#SaudiArabia #SouthAfrica #UAE

PM Narendra Modi is likely to meet US President Joe Biden Friday on the margins of the G7 summit in southern Italy’s Puglia region. With Biden headed to Italy, White House said aboard Air Force One there’s an “encounter” likely between the 2 leaders as the president expects to see the Indian PM there, while reiterating it will continue to raise the foiled Sikh separatist murder plot at very senior levels with India.
#PMModi #Biden #G7 #US #Pannun #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/pm-modi-biden-to-meet-at-g7-us-says-will-keep-raising-murder-plot-at-high-level/articleshow/110977701.cms

So, many coalition political parties in #India are not happy with the distribution of the #Cabinet Portfolios & are discussing the matter with the new Government here in this c1680 CE #Pahari Shangri II #Ramayana #IndianMiniaturePainting from Bahu, #Jammu now at The Metropolitan #Museum (on loan from National Museum, #NewDelhi)
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#Art #ArtHistory #IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Artist #Histodons #MastoArt #History #Heritage #Paintings #Museums #Religion #Hinduism #Painting #Politics

I used to hear often about how friendships are deteriorating and how India's vast political divides are causing societal disintegration. In ‘India 2030’, Sandipan Deb, as part of the volume of 20 essays, predicts how ideology and technology will widen political polarisation over the next decade.

I am currently the victim of a friendship that lasted more than 40 years until it broke up over a political disagreement. During a conversation in March 2024, I strongly (or maybe brutally!) condemned the political party that this person actively supported. They wanted to talk to me because they were really upset. Feelings were running high. I was in the wrong kind of mood, too. This will never be discussed at this time. My friend passed away last week before I could make amends with them.

Some regrets, such as this, will be with me forever.

#MastodonIndians #MastIndia #India #Regret #Humanity #Politics #Ideology #Polarization

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Were the Leopards out in Infia to eat some faces? #modi #swearingin #india #ceremony #leopards

'Indian democracy fought back’: Modi humbled as opposition gains ground

#modi #india #elections #democracy #sectarianism

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/09/indian-elections-democracy-modi-opposition-gains-analysis?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Bona-fide Spyware

WhatsApp has more than 400 million users only in India. I am one of them and I cannot evade it due to very strong network effects. In several cases, I pushed a friend or an acquaintance to use a messaging tool other than WhatsApp. And I was the only user for that person who eventually uninstalled that messaging tool before long.

We know WhatsApp provides end-to-end encryption but collects metadata which matters as, once again, stated here.WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption to protect your communications. At the same time, though, it regularly collects some seemingly less important details attached to your messaging activities—metadata. This information includes IP addresses, phone numbers, who you have spoken with, and when, among others. It may not look so important, but even such small digital traces can act as identifiers. For instance, it was exactly a piece of metadata—a Proton Mail recovery email—that led to the arrest of a Catalan activist.As for WhatsApp's Privacy Policy, the app records a wealth of usage logs including "the time, frequency, and duration of your activities and interactions." Other identifiable data such as your network details, the browser you use, ISP, and other identifiers linked to other Meta products (like Instagram and Facebook) associated with the same device or account are also collected.It is amazing that this aspect does not perturb us in India. The other day, I was initially surprised to see that the admins of one my WhatsApp group got very worried when a few members shared some metadata (names and contact details) with a high profile educational technology company of India. The admins decided to dissolve the existing WhatsApp group and create another similar group by collecting additional personal data from us. Fortunately this data is part of end-to-end encrypted WhatsApp message and, hence, it may be outside the purview of Meta. What caught my attention was that most of us were sharing this additional personal data is the existing group and thus enabling us to share even more precise data with the educational technology companies.

It does not seem to matter even when we know that Meta knows so much about us. There are even more serious concerns.The issue is that surveillance techniques are getting always more sophisticated. WhatsApp’s internal security team identified many instances of so-called correlation attacks where a smarter analysis of encrypted data—linked to its very much visible metadata counterpart—can evade the app's privacy protections.With respect to WhatsApp, Facebook and other Meta products we are nonchalant in India. The following quote from this post reflects my thoughts.What's really is scary that we're at a point were we made #SPYWARE socially acceptable simply because the authors are from "well-respected organizations" rather than "evil hacker groups".#Privacy #WhatsApp #Spyware #MastodonIndians #MastIndia #India

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Did you know that #India has one of the strongest #AffirmativeAction programs in the world? Disadvantaged groups (scheduled castes and tribes and economically weaker sections) have as much as 60% of all government jobs and seats in state run educational institutes completely reserved for them? Yes we have a lot of poor people and we have had and continue to have caste based discrimination, but the amount of efforts put into solving the problem are proportional to the size of the problem

Political analysts are still dissecting India's election results. Yes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a historic third term. But his BJP party lost a significant number of seats.

What does it all mean for the world's largest democracy? Business Insider has a great selection of stories covering all the angles. Dive deep here: https://flip.it/ctg0ik

#Modi #India #Election #Politics #Newstodon #News

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Jude Coleman comment in Nature: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01577-5 :

"Although heat in spring is normal in #India, says Krishna AchutaRao, a climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, the duration and expanse of the #heatwaves in 2022, 2023 and 2024 are uncommon [...]

An analysis [1] by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) initiative published this month found that climate change made the current extreme temperatures in India 45 times more likely than without #ClimateChange" [2]