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[an-absolute-nightmare]

me: india is not secular anymore it's turning into a hindu nationalist country :(

my so called liberal and open minded parents: india is not secular anymore it's turning into a hindu nationalist country :D:D:D:D:D

[surjestaverma]

[jomtones-bussy]

Y'all will never catch me marrying into a boring ass wedding culture y'all already know I'm marrying into an Indian family or Nigerian family. WHAT YALL GONNA DO WHEN YALL AT THE CRAZIEST NON AMERICAN WEDDING IN THE WORLD AND THEN YOU SEE AN ENTIRE MEXICAN AND KOREAN FAMILY TREE WALK IN AND GO APESHIT⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️

[jalebi-o-shir]

😭😭😭 I mean. I’m not wrong.

[nitsaholiday]

Visa-Free Travel for Indian Nationals in 2024: Your Passport to Adventure

The strength of the Indian passport continues to grow, providing access to many exciting destinations worldwide without the need for a visa. Whether you’re seeking tropical beaches, cultural immersion, or thrilling adventures, visa-free travel makes your journey smoother. In this guide, we reveal the top 10 countries that allow visa-free entry to Indian nationals in 2024, along with essential details to help you plan your travels.

1. Thailand

Thailand is a favorite destination for Indian travelers, offering vibrant cities, delicious cuisine, and idyllic beaches. From Bangkok’s bustling streets to Krabi’s serene shores, Thailand provides diverse experiences.

Visa Details

Indian nationals enjoy visa-free entry to Thailand for 30 days until November 11, 2024.

Highlights

Bangkok: Explore the Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew.

Chiang Mai: Discover ancient temples and the Night Bazaar.

Phuket: Relax on beautiful beaches and enjoy vibrant nightlife.

2. Maldives

The Maldives is a dream destination for beach lovers and honeymooners, with its crystal-clear waters, coral reefs, and luxurious resorts offering a perfect escape.

Visa Details

Indian travelers receive a free visa on arrival for 30 days.

Highlights

Underwater Adventures: Snorkel and dive among vibrant marine life.

Luxury Resorts: Stay in overwater bungalows with world-class amenities.

Island Hopping: Explore various islands, each offering unique experiences.

3. Indonesia (Bali and More)

Indonesia, particularly Bali, is known for its rich culture, stunning beaches, and exciting activities. It’s a perfect blend of relaxation and adventure.

Visa Details

Indian nationals can enjoy visa-free entry to Indonesia for up to 30 days.

Highlights

Bali: Visit Uluwatu Temple and surf world-class waves.

Yogyakarta: Discover the ancient Borobudur and Prambanan temples.

Komodo Island: See the unique Komodo dragons and explore marine parks.

4. Malaysia

Malaysia offers a rich blend of cultures, stunning natural beauty, and modern cities. From Kuala Lumpur’s skyscrapers to Langkawi’s beaches, Malaysia has something for everyone.

Visa Details

Indian passport holders enjoy visa-free entry for up to 30 days from December 1, 2023, to December 31, 2024.

Highlights

Kuala Lumpur: Visit the Petronas Towers and explore the street food scene.

Penang: Discover George Town’s history and street art.

Langkawi: Relax on beaches, explore mangroves, and enjoy duty-free shopping.

5. Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a bustling city known for its iconic skyline, vibrant shopping districts, and diverse culinary scene. It offers a unique blend of modernity and tradition.

Visa Details

Indian passport holders are granted visa-free entry for up to 14 days.

Highlights

Victoria Peak: Panoramic views of the city and harbor.

Tsim Sha Tsui: Shopping, dining, and cultural attractions along the waterfront.

Lantau Island: Visit the Big Buddha, Ngong Ping 360, and hiking trails.

6. Bhutan

Bhutan, the Land of the Thunder Dragon, offers stunning Himalayan scenery and a unique cultural heritage. It’s a country where tradition is deeply rooted in everyday life.

Visa Details

Indian nationals can enjoy their stay in Bhutan without a visa for up to 14 days.

Highlights

Paro: Visit the Tiger’s Nest Monastery on a cliffside.

Thimphu: Explore markets, museums, and Dzongs.

Punakha: See the majestic Punakha Dzong at the river confluence.

7. Nepal

Nepal is renowned for its breathtaking trekking routes, ancient temples, and serene landscapes. It’s a perfect destination for adventure seekers and those seeking spiritual solace.

Visa Details

Indian passport holders can stay indefinitely in Nepal without a visa.

Highlights

Kathmandu: Explore Pashupatinath Temple, Boudhanath Stupa, and Durbar Square.

Pokhara: Tranquil Phewa Lake and views of the Annapurna range.

Chitwan: Wildlife safari in Chitwan National Park.

8. Barbados

Barbados, a Caribbean gem, is known for its beautiful beaches, vibrant culture, and friendly locals. It’s an ideal spot for a relaxing tropical getaway.

Visa Details

Holders of Indian passports can travel visa-free to Barbados for up to 90 days.

Highlights

Bridgetown: Historic capital with colonial architecture and markets.

Harrison’s Cave: Stunning underground cave system.

Beaches: Relax on Crane Beach and enjoy water sports at Carlisle Bay.

9. Mauritius

Mauritius, an Indian Ocean island nation, is famous for its turquoise waters, lush landscapes, and vibrant culture. It offers a perfect blend of relaxation and adventure.

Visa Details

Indian citizens enjoy visa-free tourism in Mauritius for up to 90 days.

Highlights

Grand Baie: Vibrant nightlife, shopping, and beaches.

Black River Gorges National Park: Hike scenic trails and discover waterfalls.

Ile aux Cerfs: Water sports and relaxation on a picturesque private island.

10. Fiji

Fiji is known for its warm hospitality, stunning beaches, and lush rainforests. It’s a paradise for nature lovers and adventure enthusiasts.

Visa Details

Indian passport holders can stay in Fiji visa-free for up to 120 days.

Highlights

Suva: Markets, museums, and vibrant cultural scene.

Nadi: Garden of the Sleeping Giant and Sabeto Hot Springs.

Outer Islands: Island hopping, pristine beaches, and vibrant coral reefs.

Final Tips for Visa-Free Travel

While visa-free travel offers significant convenience, it’s essential to be aware of each country’s specific entry requirements. Some countries might require proof of onward travel, sufficient funds, or a return ticket. Always verify the latest regulations with the respective country’s embassy or consulate before you travel.

With your Indian passport and a sense of adventure, the world is more accessible than ever. These are just a few of the many countries that welcome you with open arms. Happy travels!

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[herpsandbirds]

Do you have any yellow birds?

You bet your sweet ass I got yellow birds!

Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia), male, HE SCREMMM!!!, family Parulidae, order Passeriformes, New Jersey, USA

Photograph by James M. Falletti

Indian Golden Oriole (Oriolus kundoo), male, family Oriolidae, order Passeriformes, Haryana, India

photograph by Amit Sharma

Golden Parakeet or Golden Conure (Guaruba guarouba), family Psittacidae, order Psittaciformes, Brazil

photograph by Paul Bratescu

Holub’s Golden Weaver aka African Golden Weaver (Ploceus xanthops), male, family Ploceidae, Kenya

photograph by kenyanbirder

Golden Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus luteovirens), male, family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, endemic to Fiji

photographs by Dubi Shapiro

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[charminglygrouped]

One of the major legacies of the British control of India was the planting of peoples of Indian origin all over the British Empire, including Britain itself. India was considered to be a reservoir of cheap labour. After African slavery was legally ended in 1833, ‘indentured’ labourers were recruited from India to work on plantations in Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. This was slavery in a new guise: many laboured under conditions no less degrading than slavery. Thereafter wherever need arose, Indian labour was employed. Indians worked in the plantations and mines in Ceylon, Malaya, Burma, South Africa and Fiji. Indian labour provided the manpower to build the East African Railway. Indian sailors worked the British merchant navy. Indian soldiers not only helped to maintain the British Raj in India, but were used as cannon fodder overseas in colonial wars of conquest to extend its frontiers.

Indians were brought to Britain too. They did not come as ‘indentured’ labourers, but the principle of cheap labour applied here as well. Many Indian servants and ayahs (nannies or ladies’ maids) were brought over by British families returning from India. Indian sailors were employed by the East India Company to work on its ships. Some of these servants and sailors settled permanently in Britain.

One of the results of the policy of introducing western education in India was that, from about the middle of the nineteenth century, many Indian students began arriving in Britain, some on scholarships, to study law or medicine or to prepare for other professions. Some came to take the exami­nation for entry into the Indian civil service since this exami­nation could only be taken in London. Some Indian students settled in Britain after qualifying, to practise as doctors, lawyers or in other professions. Some Indian business firms opened branches in England. Nationalist politicians came to London, the centre of power, to argue the cause of Indian freedom. Indian princes and maharajahs visited England, not only as guests of the Crown on formal occasions, like the coronations, but also to pay their ‘respects’ to the monarch or for pleasure. London, as the metropolitan capital, attracted many visitors from India. Exhibitions of Indian arts and crafts were displayed in England too. The Asian presence in Britain therefore goes a long way back and forms a prelude to the post-independence migration of Asians to Britain.

— Rozina Visram, Ayahs, Lascars and Princes: Indians in Britain, 1700-1947 (London: 1986), pp. 9-10.

[businesstiramisu]

for comparison: Fiji is about 37% Fiji-Indian, and about three quarters of them are hindu.

apparently Guyana is like 40% Indo-Guyanese and 30% Afro-Guyanese; it is religiously 25% Hindu which has to be some kind of record for the Americas. Gotta hurry up and secure that Indian military alliance.

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 8 April 2013, former Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher died. Street parties broke out across the UK, particularly in working class areas and in former mining communities which were ravaged by her policies. Her legacy is best remembered for her destruction of the British workers' movement, after the defeat of the miners' strike of 1984-85. This enabled the drastic increase of economic inequality and unemployment in the 1980s. Her government also slashed social housing, helping to create the situation today where it is unavailable for most people, and private property prices are mostly unaffordable for the young. Thatcher also complained that children were "being cheated of a sound start in life" by being taught that "they have an inalienable right to be gay", so she introduced the vicious section 28 law prohibiting teaching of homosexuality as acceptable. Abroad, Thatcher was a powerful advocate for racism, advising the Australian foreign minister to beware of Asians, else his country would "end up like Fiji, where the Indian migrants have taken over". She hosted apartheid South Africa's head of state, while denouncing the African National Congress as a "typical terrorist organisation". Chilean dictator general Augusto Pinochet, responsible for the rape, murder and torture of tens of thousands of people, was a close personal friend. Back in Britain, she protected numerous politicians accused of paedophilia including Sir Peter Hayman, and MPs Peter Morrison and Cyril Smith. She also lobbied for her friend, serial child abuser Jimmy Savile, to be knighted despite being warned about his behaviour. Margaret Thatcher was eventually forced to step down after the defeat of her hated poll tax by a mass non-payment campaign. Pictured: Jimmy Savile welcoming Thatcher to hell, reportedly. Learn more about the great miners' strike of 1984-5 in our podcast series: https://workingclasshistory.com/tag/1984-5-miners-strike/ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=605239344982618&set=a.602588028581083&type=3

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Fish of the Day

Today's fish of the day is the yellow lipped sea krait!

The yellow lipped sea krait also called the banded sea krait, or colubrine sea krait, scientific name Laticauda colubrina, is a well known aquatic snake. The range of the yellow banded sea krait is throughout the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific. To be more specific, along the eastern coast of India and then stretching the coasts of the bay of Bengal to all other Southeastern Asian countries with a coast, including as far as Fiji. Although they are not native to Australia or New Zealand, several populations have been found across their coastlines.

These snakes live nearby coral reefs primarily and shallow bay like areas, as their prey is almost exclusively within these areas. Unlike other sea snakes the yellow lipped sea krait spends significant time out of the water, around 50% of its time once it reaches adulthood. Juveniles spend their time almost exclusively in the water, where they will hunt and rest, but once prey is caught they will leave the water to digest on nearby shores. The speed on land is significantly reduced to that in the water, and as such these animals will attempt to remain hidden during these times, presenting a problem for when unsuspecting animals get too close. Other than to digest, the time on land is also spent shedding old skins, and reproducing.

Hunting is done alone, despite large numbers gathering together before and after hunts, and they eat primarily moray eels. This is done by flushing out their prey from narrow crevices and holes, by probing their head in. They then used their striped tail to convince the eel that their tail is their head, tricking them into attempting to flee in the wrong direction, then once the eel is close enough, they strike. Another thing that the yellow barred sea krait is known for is their venom. This venom is a rather powerful neurotoxin protein from the alpha neurotoxin family, which disrupts the synapses, causing paralysis.

The life cycle of the yellow lipped sea krait is regular for sea snakes. Breeding is done throughout September-December on the gently sloping beaches at high tide, where courtship rituals occur. Multiple male snakes will find a female that they consider large enough to successfully carry eggs. Then, they surround her, aligning their bodies as close as possible and contracting rhythmically, until she chooses one of them. After this, she will lay 10 eggs in a clutch, and hide the nest. In adulthood, they can grow up to 3 ft in males, and almost 5ft in females, and have life spans around 20 years.

Have a wonderful day, everyone!

[handeaux]

Cincinnati Was Fascinated By Talking Machines Whether Good, Bad Or Bogus

Professor Faber’s amazing “talking machine” arrived in Cincinnati to great fanfare in 1872 when that contraption shared a bill at Wood’s Theater with the famous Bandmanns, Daniel and Millicent. The celebrity thespians presented “The Merchant of Venice” and “The Corsican Brothers.” The talking machine recited whatever the professor told it to.

As early as 1844, the Cincinnati Enquirer carried reports of Austrian Joseph Faber’s progress in developing a mechanical device that could replicate human speech. The original “Professor” Faber, unhappy with progress on his own invention, killed himself in 1850, but the project was taken on by his nephew, also named Joseph Faber, who perfected the device and took it on tour. The Enquirer [25 January 1872] described it in some detail:

“On looking at it you see a table, on one end of which is a key-board with a number of levers similar to the hammers of a piano leading to an upright beam. At the front of this beam you see a mask from which you hear, in tones that remind one of a child’s trumpet, the measured enunciation of words. Back of this beam stands a pair of bellows which is operated by a treadle, and furnishes the air that is required to supply the instrument.”

Faber’s device was a sort of analog speech synthesizer, an ancestor of the Vocoder and similar electronic devices of the Twentieth Century. The operator, by pumping pedals and pressing keys, generated sounds resembling human speech. The Enquirer’s reporter, imagining no “practical utility,” was nevertheless impressed with the machine’s performance.

“During the exhibition the machine was made to speak in English, German, Greek and Hebrew. It beats the Professor speaking English, and but for the example of broken English he sets would speak almost as closely as anyone. It pronounced such words as Mississippi, Cincinnati, Chicago, Philadelphia with ease and clearness. Although it speaks with a decided German accent, one has less difficulty understanding it than the average German who has been three or four years in this country.”

While touring the United States, Professor Faber impressed impresario Phineas Taylor Barnum so much that the great showman renamed the machine as The Euphonium and engaged it and its operator for six months on a contract worth $20,000. Barnum brought the newly christened Euphonium back to Cincinnati in July 1872 as a highlight of his “Great Traveling World’s Fair.” That extravaganza also featured four giraffes, sea lions, herds of trained elephants, Fiji cannibals, American Indians, various dwarves and midgets and three rings of continual circus acts. Barnum’s Fair occupied the Union Baseball Grounds for four summer days at a time when Cincinnati had no professional baseball team. Reports indicate that Barnum got his money’s worth as his show became the hottest ticket in town. Barnum did well enough that he extended Faber’s contract for at least another year. The Euphonium continued to receive star billing when Barnum’s circus returned to Cincinnati in 1873.

Professor Faber continued to exhibit his talking machine well into the 1880s, several years after a very different sort of talking machine made its debut. Thomas Edison, the Genius of Menlo Park, unveiled his phonograph in 1877 and Cincinnati shifted its attentions to the new gadget in town. The Cincinnati Commercial dispatched a reporter to Edison’s laboratory and he filed [3 April 1878] a breathless dispatch:

“I saw the talking-machine, talked to it, and it talked back. You have heard about it, of course, but the story can not be an old one for years to come, and although the phonograph is as simple as a jackknife, it excites the awe of the beholder as a telegraph wire stirs up an Indian’s superstition”

It was another year before an actual phonograph arrived in Cincinnati, almost simultaneously with an early telephone. The Enquirer [5 June 1878] announced the dawn of a new age:

“The phonograph now on exhibition at Greenwood Hall had an increased number of visitors yesterday, our most prominent citizens leading what must become a rush to witness this real wonder, which, with the telephone, marks an era in science. It is impossible to describe the sensation created by this ‘talking’ machine, which gives back to one his own very words and tones in either speaking or singing, and which, many believe, is to revolutionize many things in social and business life.”

Edison’s mind-blowing machine inspired a couple of Cincinnati con artists to offer talking machine service to the great unwashed. At a time when phonographs cost the equivalent of $500 and cylinders the equivalent of $15 per in today’s coin, the opportunity to try out this revolutionary device for one thin dime was irresistible. According to Frank Y. Grayson’s wonderful book, “Pioneers of Night Life on Vine Street,” the flim-flam men set up shop just south of the canal.

“Across the front of the dump, spread a canvas which bore these words: ‘Come In and for a Dime Hear the Most Amazing Invention of the Age – the Talking Machine Extraordinary.’”

The dupes who fell for the pitch surrendered their ten cents and were handed a rubber mouthpiece attached to a long hose. They said their piece while the operator furiously cranked a large wheel, waited a moment and – voila! – their words of wisdom emerged from a rubber bulb sprouting a tin funnel.

“News of the wonderful invention flashed up and down the good old avenue, and the come-ons fell all over themselves getting into the place. The crooks made hay while the sun shone.”

Their demise came when the local beat cop stopped by and tested his elocution. He shouted, “What am I?” into the mouthpiece, the customary pause ensued and “What am I?” emerged faintly from the funnel – followed by a sneeze. “I didn’t sneeze,” said the cop and descended into the basement where he found a fat man in shirtsleeves, managing the other end of a couple of rubber hoses.

Talking machines so excited the imagination of Cincinnati’s residents that they infested the hallucinations of our cranks. The Enquirer [21 October 1900] related the case of Mrs. F.C. Lykins of Walnut Hills, who sent letters accusing a young man residing at the Union Bethel of annoying her with his talking machine. A detective determined that there was no such resident at the Union Bethel, and no one by that name living in the area. Mrs. Lykins insisted that voices from a talking machine filled the air around her head. The detective just smiled, closed his notebook, and headed back downtown.