🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@Ca_Gi And of course you can also share the people you follow, to share their interesting content with your own followers :)
Some people make this a habit on #followfriday

For example:

People:
@freemo , interesting posts, admin of qoto.org
@djoerd , friend, founder of mastodon.utwente.nl and now professor in Nijmegen

Bots:
For water drinking reminders: @suika
For some relief between all the seriousness:
@nocontextspongebob

Indian Leopard in Bandipur, Karnataka, India.

He was really unhappy about the fact that his siesta was disturbed by all the tourists and their cameras.

hey guys! it's Carl Sagan day today. My favorite book is Cosmos. Just now, I opened it at the chapter Encyclopaedia Galactica that showed hypothetical worlds. Rejoice, for we are (or will be) among such futuristic worlds! Sagan has influenced my excitement for positive SciFi stuff. He's the man!

#NoCelebrityCulture is a dream scenario and it's good to see so many of the #Mastdoon users support that.
Almost all the topics that are debated or discussed in India revolves around some celebrity/politicians.
They never represent / care about what a commoner has to say.
For e.g.
During De-monetization almost all the celebs tweeted/posted videos praising our PM, some went further to order us that it's 'ok' to suffer for the sake of our nation. But I remember myself and so many common citizen struggling. Things spiraled out of control. But not for the so- called celebs.

Here's my new video btw...

#IntoTheFediverse

#Mastodon #India #IndiaMastodon #Twitter #IndiaTwitter #Fediverse

On a serious note, i find mastodon really peaceful. Just went to Twitter and found people abusing liberals and leftist.
That birdsite makes me feel so guilty of my own principles.

@freemo As a continent we're still Asians (more precisely South-asians). The south of Asia is also sometimes referred to as the Indian Subcontinent which includes India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. So while technically were still Asians, the term has been co-opted by our northern neighbours, China and Japan. Hence the confusion. We're pretty chill with any of these terms though 😉

@freemo that's a very long topic to discuss. In short, before the rise of right wing politics, India was and is right now also, 'unity in diversity'. There are multiple religions and cultures that were born in India itself and those cultures are so very different in food, clothing, rituals and even abodes but all stand united in front of the enemy.
Pakistan was split from India and its culture is somewhat similar to Punjab in India because of common border.
FYI Pakistan is also asian country.

@freemo Indians and Pakistanis are essentially the same. We weren't aware that we are Indians and Pakistani till the Brits broke us up and left.

And yes, we are all usually considered South Asians. Further east is South East Asians.

Brown Fish owl, Bandipur, Karnataka, India

@freemo Here in Canada the usual reference is to "South Asian" people. There's also "South East Asian" for the region previously called Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, etc). Asia is a huge area, tremendous spread North to South as well - Siberia to Sri Lanka all are part of.

Has #Twitter restricted reach of almost everyone today due to #AYODHYAVERDICT ? I had great reach in morning, now it is like totally gone #India

@freemo Geographically speaking, we are Asians. But I have always wondered why we are not addressed as 'Asians' as much others (Chinese, Koreans etc). So I guess we are just 'Indians'
Like @_lunawinters mentioned, more than 150 languages are spoken (22 official), thousands, if not lakhs of different communities following different customs are present.
Not weird for a country with 1.3 BILLION population.

@freemo @_lunawinters For most cases it is live with your parents for life! Even on the so called standards of Society it is assumed respectful that you're staying with your parents even after you've started earning!

@freemo the thing is that in India, we don't have a particular culture that i or any Indian can pinpoint. We have a unique diversity where we have more than 100 languages (23 recognized by the constitution), 5 major religions and many other minorities.
Every 200 km, you can see the uniqueness nature of India.
In Korea or China, they have a particular culture with which they represent their country. India represents itself with it's diversity.

@freemo You're getting it right. But the thing is we don't have any particular culture that is followed uniformly throughout the country. Like the part where I am from (Kolkata), has more similarities with Bangladesh.

Similarly many on the western part has similarities with Pakistan when it comes to the way of living eating etc.

Here we say one thing: "Unity in diversity" (though in current conditions, it has been questioned many times)