#indian social network

[nando161mando]

This is also how easily US imperialist propaganda gets manufactured on Reddit

[bauliya]

i hate to break my anti desi men racism streak but when divya in the social network goes i want an injunction, i want damages, i want punitive relief, and i want him dead. go gujju boy go.

[jantanow]

समावेशी विकास को बढ़ावा देने के लिए उड़ान ने की पहल, ग्लोबल एडवाइजरी बॉडी के गठन की घोषणा की।

बागपत। उड़ान यूथ क्लब ने अपने कार्यक्रमों एवं नीतियों को समावेशी और प्रभावी बनाने के उद्देश्य से ग्लोबल एडवाइजरी बॉडी की शुरुआत की है जिसके लिए ऑनलाइन आवेदन आमंत्रित किए गए है। इच्छुक उम्मीदवार उड़ान यूथ क्लब की आधिकारिक वेबसाइट पर पांच सितंबर तक आ��ेदन कर सकते है। ग्लोबल एडवाइजरी बॉडी में उन आवेदकों को प्राथमिकता मिलेगी जो स��वैच्छिक योगदान के लिए प्रतिबद्ध है और पूर्व में किसी युवा नेतृत्व वाले…

[directsellingnow]

Networking Ke Deewane Podcast: Business Coach & Mentor Shiv Arora की खास सलाह

DSN द्वारा शुरू किए गए Networking Ke Deewane podcast में Business Coach और Mentor Mr. Shiv Arora ने अपने अनुभव और ज्ञान से नेटवर्क मार्केटर्स के साथ-साथ युवा पीढ़ी को भी प्रेरित किया। इस एपिसोड में उन्होंने अपने विचार और टिप्स साझा किए, जो न केवल नेटवर्क मार्केटिंग के पेशेवरों के लिए उपयोगी थे, बल्कि सभी युवाओं के लिए भी प्रेरणादायक थे। आइए जानते हैं कि उन्होंने इस दौरान क्या-क्या महत्वपूर्ण…

[levyconindia001]

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[khulke-social-media]

Khul Ke Social Networking App: Connecting India Through Meaningful Conversations  

Khul Ke, an India-centric social networking app, is dedicated to fostering authentic conversations and connections. In this comprehensive guide, we'll explore how Khul Ke differentiates itself from similar platforms like ShareChat, Koo, Moj, and Chingari. With over 10,000 downloads and a remarkable 4.3-star rating on the Play Store, Khul Ke is already making waves. Join us as we delve into what sets Khul Ke apart and how it aims to redefine social networking in India.  

What Sets Khul Ke Apart?  

Khul Ke is a revolutionary Indian social media platform designed to encourage meaningful conversations. Users can openly share their thoughts, opinions, and observations while actively engaging in discussions. What truly distinguishes Khul Ke is its unique video discussion feature, allowing users to both observe and participate in live conversations, akin to YouTube. It provides a conducive environment for open discussions across various categories, where users can follow others and stay updated on their posts.  

What’s different about Khul Ke?  

Khul Ke stands out by promoting open and uncensored discussions on topics ranging from politics to sports. While it fosters freedom of expression, it adheres to strict guidelines that prohibit hate speech, harassment, or any form of violence. In stark contrast to other platforms, Khul Ke offers a space where users can freely share ideas, discuss current events, and engage in meaningful conversations without the fear of censorship.  

Why do we need a platform like Khul Ke?  

Unlike platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, which often grapple with censorship issues, Khul Ke provides an open and timely platform for users to express their ideas freely. It places a strong emphasis on free speech, clear expression, and in-depth conversations. Moreover, Khul Ke offers a plethora of features, including video discussions, microblogging, private messaging, short videos, and India's first video-based meetings.  

Key Features of Khul Ke  

Bol Khul Ke: Express your thoughts on topics that matter to you and connect with like-minded individuals.  

Make a Difference: Host RoundTable discussions to drive change and fully express yourself.  

Instantly Create MeetUps: Schedule casual chats or business meetings effortlessly.  

Instant Post Creation: Share your interests and gain visibility among your target audience.  

Cross-Platform Sharing: Seamlessly share your posts across various platforms.  

Your Personal Space: Share your thoughts and stories freely without unnecessary filters. 

Snip-It: Create captivating videos to showcase your talents or share informative tips. 

Invite Friends: Encourage your friends to become part of the Khul Ke community.  

Mention Others: Tag individuals in your posts to ensure your voice is heard.  

Be an Audience: Explore the latest, trending, and popular discussions across various categories.  

How to Sign Up on Khul Ke  

Getting started with Khul Ke is a straightforward process: Download the Khul Ke App: Search for "Khul Ke" on your device's app store and proceed to install it.  

Website Signup: Alternatively, you can sign up on the Khul Ke website.  

Join Khul Ke today and immerse yourself in the world of enriching conversations.  

Khul Ke’s mission  

Khul Ke's mission is to promote freedom of speech, empowering individuals, groups, and communities to express themselves without the constraints of strict local rules and regulations. It encourages users to take responsibility for their own conversations, fostering meaningful and open discussions. Khul Ke unites people, promoting self-reliance and independence, aligning with the vision of "atmanirbhar bharat." Join us in shaping honest and meaningful conversations on Khul Ke.  

[writers-potion]

Writing Character Accents in Fiction

Hey there, thanks for the question! I speak English as a second language; most English speakers I encounter aren’t native (yes, including fictional people); thus, this is a concern I’ve explored personally when I write. 

I think the core principle regarding accent writing is this: it shouldn’t be distracting. 

For the same reasons why Stephen King prescribes the basic dialogue tag “said” rather than fancier alternatives like “whispered”, “shouted” or “screeched”, dialogue must be first and foremost easy to read. It must flow like a real conversation – the pace and tone are a lot more important than how specific words are being pronounced by the character. 

Focus on what effect the accent has:

Using adjectives to describe their voice in general. Different types of English (American, British, Australian, etc.) will give off a different vibe, also partly dependent on how your character speaks in general:

Lilting: Having a smooth rise and falling quality; sing-song like. Welsh accent is often described as singing. 

Posh: from a high social class. This is the term generally used to describe the upper-class British accent.

Nasal: this happens when the sound goes through somebody’s nose when they’re speaking. North American accents are more nasal than, say, British pronunciations. 

Brash: harsh, loud, indicative of sounding a little rude. 

Slur: speaking indistinctly; words merging into one another.

Using metaphors.

Her voice was cotton and fluffy clouds. 

When he spoke, the ‘r’s scratched the insides of his throat. 

Mentioning their accent with a brief example(s). 

“Would you like to drink some wine?” she said, though her Indian accent gave extra vibration to her ‘w’s and ‘r’s, making the words sound more like ‘vould you like to drrrink some vine’.

“I want some chocolate.” His syllables were choppy and ‘l’s rather flat, saying ‘cho-ko-lit’. 

Some Tips:

Don’t phonically spell out everything. Perhaps give a few examples in the beginning, but stick to standard English spellings. 

Pay attention to word choice, slang, and colloquialisms. 

An Australian person would say “tram”, not “trolley; “runners” instead of “sneakers”

A Canadian may refer to a “fire hall” – what Americans call a firehouse or fire station

If your character comes from a non-Enligsh background:

Use vocabulary from other languages. 

“What time was the exam, ah? Two o’clock? Jiayou!” → putting “ah” or “la” at the end of sentences + Jiayou means “break a leg” in Singlish. 

“I can’t believe that 4-year-olds have their own SNS accounts now.” → “SNS” is short for “social networking service”, a term used to refer to social media in Korea. This would a subtle difference – even though it isn’t technically Korean at all!

Transpose grammar from different languages. 

For example, in French, plural nouns take plural adjectives (whereas in English, you would speak of ‘white cars’, not ‘whites cars’).

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[khulke]

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[famenestblog]

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[nando161mando]

Lmao

[lifelineon]

Lifelineon is an Indian Social Networking and microblogging website on which registered users can follow to existing users on the website. Lifelineon users can post images, videos and stories, trending topics using hashtags in posts, and use the website for instant messaging. Lifelineon users can engage themselves by asking and answering questions, sharing tips and resources and participating in poll. Lifelineon is a network with unique capabilities that allows users to build relationship. Lifelineon is the Ideal social networking website for engagement with identifying of user whom we should engage. Lifelineon is excellent for real-time engagement with users, allow to share information instantly. Lifelineon interface is ideal for engagement on the go that can reach to followers immediately. Lifelineon allow strategize ways to incorporate hashtags, photos and links into posts in order to boost engagements. Lifelineon also allows businesses to set up official and verified accounts to communicate with their followers and to use free advertising as an alternate for advertising their products. Lifelineon users love to post news, entertainment, sports, politics, and more. What makes Lifelineon different from most other social networking websites is it strongly emphasizas real time information - things happening and trending right now. 

[writingwithcolor]

Desi Parenthood, Adoption, and Stereotypes

I have a story set in the modern day with supernatural traces, with three characters: a young boy, his bio dad, and his adoptive dad. The boy and his bio dad are Indian, the adoptive dad is Chinese. The bio dad is one of the few people in the story with powers. He put his son up for adoption when he was a child because at the time he was a young single father, had little control of the strength of his powers: he feared accidentally hurting his child. The son is adopted by the other dad, who holds spite to the bio dad for giving up his son since he lost his father as a young age and couldn't get why someone would willingly abandon their child. This also results in him being overprotective and strict over his son. When the child is older, the bio dad comes to their town and the son gets closer to him, which makes the adoptive dad pissed, mostly acting hostile to the other guy, paranoid that he'll decide to take away the child he didn't help raise. Later when they get closer he does change his biases. I can see the possible stereotypes here: the absent father being the darkskinned character, the light-skinned adoptive dad being richer than the bio dad, the lightskinned character being hostile and looking down on the darkskinned character, the overprotective asian parent, the adoptive dad assuming the bio dad abandoned the son. The reason for his bias isn't inherently racist, but I get how it can be seen that way. Is there a way to make this work? Would it be better to scrap it?

Two problem areas stand out with this ask: 

You seem confused with respect to how racial stereotypes are created, and what effect they have on society.

Your characterization of the Indian father suggests a lack of familiarity with many desi cultures as they pertain to family and child-rearing.

Racial Stereotypes are Specific

Your concern seems to stem from believing the absent father trope is applied to all dark-skinned individuals, when it’s really only applied to a subset of dark-skinned people for specific historical/ social/ political reasons. The reality is stereotypes are often targeted.

The “absent father” stereotype is often applied to Black fathers, particularly in countries where chattel slavery or colonialism meant that many Black fathers were separated from their children, often by force. The "absent black father" trope today serves to enforce anti-black notions of Black men as anti-social, neglectful of their responsibilities, not nurturing, etc. Please see the WWC tag #absent black father for further reading. 

Now, it’s true many desis have dark skin. There are also Black desis. I would go as far as to say despite anti-black bias and colorism in many desi cultures, if one was asked to tell many non-Black desis from places like S. India and Sri Lanka apart from Black people from places like E. Africa, the rate of failure would be quite high. However, negative stereotypes for desi fathers are not the same as negative stereotypes for non-desi Black fathers, because racially, most Black people and desis are often not perceived as being part of the same racial group by other racial groups, particularly white majorities in Western countries. Negative stereotypes for desi fathers are often things like: uncaring, socially regressive/ conservative, sexist. They are more focused around narratives that portray these men as at odds with Western culture and Western norms of parenting. 

Desi Parents are Not this Way

Secondly, the setup makes little sense given how actual desi families tend to operate when one or both parents are unable to be present for whatever reason. Children are often sent to be raised by grandparents, available relatives or boarding schools (Family resources permitting). Having children be raised by an outsider is a move of last resort. You make no mention of why your protagonist’s father didn’t choose such an option. The trope of many desi family networks being incredibly large is not unfounded. Why was extended family not an option?

These two points trouble me because you have told us you are writing a story involving relationship dynamics between characters of both different races and ethnicities. I’m worried you don’t know enough about the groups you are writing about, how they are perceived by each other and society at large in order to tell the story you want to tell.

As with many instances of writing with color, your problem is not an issue of scrap versus don’t scrap. It’s being cognizant of the current limits of your knowledge. How you address this knowledge deficit and its effect on your interpretation of your characters and the story overall will determine if readers from the portrayed groups find the story compelling.

- Marika.

I have one response: what? Where are the father’s parents? Any siblings? Is he cut off? Is he American? A Desi that has stayed in India? 

Estrangement is not completely out of the question if the father is Westernized; goodness knows that I have personal experience with seeing estrangement. But you haven’t established any of that. What will you add?

-Jaya

[reasonsforhope]

"Winning what’s been called the ‘Green Nobel’ an Indian environmental activist has been recognized for saving a 657 square-mile forest from 21 coal mines.

From the New Delhi train station to high-end hotels to the poorest communities, virtually no one in India is free from periodic blackouts. As part of the Modi regime’s push for a developed and economically dominant India, power generation of every sort is being installed in huge quantities.

GNN has reported this drive has included some of the world’s largest solar energy projects, but it also involves coal. India is one of the largest consumers of coal for electricity generation, and Hasdeo Aranya forests, known as the “Lungs of Chhattisgarh,” are known to harbor large deposits.

The state government had been investigating 21 proposed coal mining blocks across 445,000 acres of biodiverse forests that provide crucial natural resources to the area’s 15,000 indigenous Adivasi people.

Along with the Adivasi, tigers, elephants, sloth bears, leopards, and wolves, along with dozens of endemic bird and reptile species call this forest home. It’s one of India’s largest intact arboreal habitats, but 5.6 billion metric tons of mineable coal threatened to destroy it all.

Enter Alok Shukla, founder of the Save Hasdeo Aranya Resistance Committee, which began a decade ago advocating for the protection of Hasdeo through a variety of media and protest campaigns, including sit-ins, tree-hugging campaigns, advocating for couples to write #savehasdeo on their wedding invitations, and publishing a variety of other social media content.

Shukla also took his message directly to the legislature, reminding them through news media coverage of their obligations to India’s constitution which enshrines protection for tribal people and the environments they require to continue their traditional livelihoods.

Beginning with a proposal to create a single protected area called Lemru elephant reserve within Hasdeo that would protect elephant migration corridors and cancel three of the 21 mining proposals, Shukla and the Adivasi began a 160-mile protest march down a national highway towards the Chhattisgarh state capital of Raipur.

They hadn’t even crossed the halfway mark when news reached them that not only was the elephant reserve idea unanimously agreed upon, but every existing coal mining proposal had been rejected by the state legislature, and all existing licenses would be canceled.

“We had no expectations, but the legislative assembly voted unanimously that all of the coal mines of Hasdeo should be canceled, and the forest should be saved,” Shukla says in recollection to the Goldman Prize media channel.

“That was a very important moment and happy moment for all of us.”

Shukla shares the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize with 5 other winners, from Brazil, the US, South Africa, Australia, and Spain."

-via Good News Network, May 20, 2024. Video via Goldman Environmental Prize, April 29, 2024.

[ktempestbradford]

From The Atlantic: Substack Has a Nazi Problem

[that link is to an archived version, so no paywall]

Bottom Line: the CEOs/leaders of Substack aren't just being laissez-faire about the fascists and open white supremacists on the platform, they actively boost them by having them on the company podcast, featuring them, mentioning them, and boosting them. Because the newsletters bring in LOADS of money and they love money. Even newsletters that repeatedly violate the basic, useless guidelines of Substack, they do not get punished.

This isn't a huge surprise for anyone who has been following the major issues with Substack that have come up in the past few years. There was the whole scandal where the public discovered that Substack had been paying people secretly to be on the service while advertising that anyone can make it on their own here! Plus, they were paying bigots directly to put their newsletters on the srvice.

Good breakdowns of that from Annalee Newitz and Grace Lavery.

Then there was the disasterous interview one of the CEOs (Chris Best) did with Nilay Patel of The Verge when Substack's Twitter clone launched. Nilay -- who is, if you hadn't guessed, of Indian descent -- asked him pointed questions about content moderation and... well...

[Nilay] I just want to be clear, if somebody shows up on Substack and says “all brown people are animals and they shouldn’t be allowed in America,” you’re going to censor that. That’s just flatly against your terms of service. [Best] So, we do have a terms of service that have narrowly prescribed things that are not allowed. That one I’m pretty sure is just flatly against your terms of service. You would not allow that one. That’s why I picked it. So there are extreme cases, and I’m not going to get into the– Wait. Hold on. In America in 2023, that is not so extreme, right? “We should not allow as many brown people in the country.” Not so extreme. Do you allow that on Substack? Would you allow that on Substack Notes? I think the way that we think about this is we want to put the writers and the readers in charge– No, I really want you to answer that question. Is that allowed on Substack Notes? “We should not allow brown people in the country.” I’m not going to get into gotcha content moderation. This is not a gotcha... I’m a brown person. Do you think people on Substack should say I should get kicked out of the country? I’m not going to engage in content moderation, “Would you or won’t you this or that?” That one is black and white, and I just want to be clear: I’ve talked to a lot of social network CEOs, and they would have no hesitation telling me that that was against their moderation rules. Yeah. We’re not going to get into specific “would you or won’t you” content moderation questions. Why? I don’t think it’s a useful way to talk about this stuff.

Best wasn't willing to get into these "gotchas" around their new social network, which is a pretty clear indication that they won't get into it around content moderation on the original platform. (Their statement after the fact did nothing to make things better.)

It's also really clear from the Atlantic article that the Substack CEOs/Owners are, at best, more interested in making money than in keeping white supremacists and Nazis (literal ones) off their platform. At worst, the Substack CEOs/Owners are supremacist/Nazi sympathizers. Either way:

Substack Directly Supports the Alt-Right, Nazis, and White Supremacists

Openly, brazenly, and without remorse.