Two years ago, the Gujarati politician who was sent to Lakshadweep to be its administrator, tried to ban beef, and replace all mid day meals with vegetarian food. This has less to do with animal rights, and more to do with anti-Muslim cruelty.
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.
It's depressing. I clicked through #MastodonIndians#MastIndia & found overwhelming number of toots focused on #Bollywood gossip & entertainment.
For a country with the largest population on earth, I saw little to no engagement on international affairs, not even about regional affairs (#China#Pakistan#Myanmar#SriLanka), much less about #MiddleEast and the world.
In this season of elections, India is voting for a plantbased diet. A recent national survey on the mood of the nation reports that Indians are overwhelmingly in favour of eating plantbased.
74% of respondents believe that plantbased diet is good for overall health, 73% feel it helps stop animal exploitation, 72% believe it is good for the environment, and 62% feel it is an easy lifestyle to maintain.
On #climate#COP28: My fear is that getting international agreements in place is the easiest part of the problem. The hard bit will be the proverbial last-mile. People will have to change their behaviour in ways that are pro-environment. And for that, they will have to be more pro-social. It is here that things get stuck.
Environmental goals are difficult to achieve without social capital. Getting international agreement on climate issues is the easy part; the difficult bit is getting hyperdiverse societies to cooperate at the everyday level.
Today in Labor History December 3, 1984: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killed over 3,800 people and injured up to 600,000 more. Up to 16,000 people died, in total, over the years following the disaster. The Government of Madhya Pradesh has paid compensation to family members of 3,787 of the victims killed. Numerous local activist groups emerged to support the victims of the disaster, like Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla, who won the Goldman Prize in 2004. Many of the activists were subjected to violent repression by the police and government. Larger international groups, like Greenpeace and Pesticide Action Network also got involved. The disaster has played a role in numerous works of fiction, including Arundhati Roy’s “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” (2017) and Indra Sinha’s “Animal’s People” (2007). It has also been referenced in music by the Revolting Cocks “Union Carbide” and the Dog Faced Hermans ”Bhopal.”
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I remember well that insurance companies executives rushed to have the family of deceased or injured victims, and signing a settlement agreement of a few hundred $, a huge amount for those people, preventing them from suing the company after that and obtaining the thousands and ten of thousands of $ they might have claimed and would have no doubt obtained.
Was a teenager then and I remember seing these obnoxious people as a pack of hyenas.
They would have a bonus of many thousands of $ for each settlement they had those illiterate victims signed.
Some #murals outside the #ISRO#museum or Vikram Sarabhai #Space Exhibition Center. More than the space stuff, enjoyed the #mural(s) painted on the walls.
Is it a legal requirement in India for news agencies to give the suicide hotline number at the end of any article that even vaguely mentions suicide or is that something news agencies do for ethics 🤔
Facing pressure in India, Netflix and Amazon back down on daring films
In the last four years, a chill has swept through the streaming industry in India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party tightened its grip on the country’s political discourse and the American technology platforms that host it.
@mastodonindians "In two out of the last three assembly elections in Rajasthan, the margin of victory between the winning party and the biggest opposition party wasn’t even half of the total number of reserved seats.
"Including Lok Sabha elections, in the six elections that the state has witnessed since the 2008 delimitation exercise — in which boundaries of constituencies were redrawn — the party that secured the most number of reserved seats has won the election."
Remembering Maulana Abul Kalam Azad: A Scholar, Patriot and Builder of Modern India
Today, November 11, marks the 135th birth anniversary of India's first education minister. The Maulana played a crucial role in bringing Indian Muslims out of their self-imposed political indifference to cooperate with their Hindu brethren in the task of freeing the country from foreign rule.
Majority of sitting MLAs in 5 poll-bound states are crorepatis, many face criminal cases, shows data
In all the five states analysed, those aged 50 and above comprise the majority of the MLAs. No state has done too well when it comes to female representation.
@sreedevkkumar@mastodonindians reminds me of that article that said a certain ai tool for detecting criminals by analyzing facial data detected a big percent of us politicians as criminals :)