Sundar @digital_carver@qoto.org

I've just joined @india group for #India-related posts.

Guppe groups are pretty simple - you follow the account @india to join the group. Then any time you wish to post to the group, just @ the same account, and the post will be shared with all the other members.

#Indians #desi #SouthAsia #Indiverse #IndianFediverse #IndiaNews

I never did a proper #introduction post with the tags and that, so here goes:

#psychology
#books
#languages
#linguistics
#programming
#pets
#science
#philosophyofscience
#metaphysics
#selfimprovement
#hypnosis
#meditation
#artificialintelligence
#rationality
#india
#tamil
#teaching
#existentialism

https://karkanirka.org/2020/10/04/roman-soldiers-in-tamilnadu/

Many different interesting little details. My favourite is his theory on the difference between Yavanas and Milecchas (both old Tamil terms for foreigners): "Possibly, anyone whose language was known and could be understood were called Yavanas. People who could not understand or talk either in Greek or Tamil could have been called [Mileccha]." So Mileccha was like "barbarian" in the original Greek sense - people who spoke "bar bar bar" as in you couldn't understand them.

#tamil #history #India #Roman

While folks in the US are going insane over how bad the situation is, #India is slowly catching up in numbers without even much public awareness of how dire things are getting. People are worried about livelihood and starting to crave business-as-usual, but the country is not read for business-as-usual and it looks like we'll just end up losing both economically and in terms of lives.