vipaal

If starting from https://www.sanskritimagazine.com/little-known-history-of-goa-and-the-portuguese-inquistion/ and working farther into the past is acceptable. A fair bit to the south of the gangetic region.

Also, depending on your end goals, which are difficult if not impossible to discern from your post as of this writing, you might want to find out the background of the authors of the book. Most stories about India as is known outside India is narrated and steadfastly owned by non Indian voices. So if you are looking to work in a think-tank for instance, you’d steer towards authors who advocate German speaking region’s interests with regards to India. Or if you are looking to work in diplomatic capacities, the authors might be of that leaning.

Bear in mind the current government’s push to own the narrative to the exclusion of outside voices. Totally understandable, whilst being something to be mindful of.

Regarding religion. Doubtful of getting anywhere without running into religion as far as India goes. The science vs religion dichotomy works differently outside of the West, for all I can see.

The India of Mahabharat era encompasses today’s Afghanistan, for what it’s worth. Going by Indian archaeologists – https://www.booksfact.com/history/ancient-gandhara-kingdom-kandahar-afghanistan.html

Also, another decent starting point would be, Constantino Giuseppe Beschi. The man who most recently resuscitated the then dying language of Tamil and led to original Christian literature being written in it. Tamil, along with Sanskrit is listed as a classical language by UNESCO IIRC.

What Odin said to Thor. Asgard is not a place, never was, never will be. It is the people.

I did the following on Jerboa

• save this post (we’ll be revisiting this a few times)
• go to the search function that is indicated by the bulleted list icon
• enter the community name (without the @… part)
• there’ll be a few results
• tap on them, see the posts if you want, and tap the subscribe button and see that it shows joined
• go to saved posts, repeat until subscribed to every community you want

Having said that, there’s probably a simpler way to do this. Still early in the learning process.

Seconding Lemmur rhymes with Lemmer of Christine Lemmer-Webber, one of the authors of the ActivityPub protocol

Fediverse will go through what Linux went through. Be seen by businesses as an existential threat. Then face FUD and EEE campaign.

One day, likely earlier than Linux witnessed the rise of RedHat, Google, Facebook as prominent businesses that became poster children for Linux, new or existing businesses could be built around and/or on fediverse. They may as well come together to form an ActivityPub foundation similar to the Linux Foundation for all we know.

Email went through similar trajectory too. SMTP, IMAP, pop are are open protocols. Yet we have a sort of oligopoly on email.

Similar to how Windows did not die away because Linux came along, existing social networks may remain in existence. The availability of fediverse as an alternative would keep them busy

Nor does it look great…

Interesting move by #Microsoft

Only weeks ago, https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/04/water-starved-middle-east-large-chatgpt-data-centers-are-threat , https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2023/04/thirsty-ai-training-chatgpt-required-enough-water-to-fill-a-nuclear-reactors-cooling-tower-study-finds/ and the #nomoat leaks from #google were making rounds

Is this some #eee and #fud like strategy being employed by Microsoft?