#india people

[fivepercentgodsandearths]

#nation of gods and earths #supreme mathematics #five percent nation #allah school in mecca #hip hop #Supreme Understanding #5% nation of gods and earths #father allah #black women #black men #south asian #Bengali people #india people #interracial

[indeedgoodman]

#art #humanity #kindness #people being people #society #human beings #faith in humanity #india #cleaning #life hacks #tips #how to #love #life #hope #feeling #emotions #existence #reality #real life

[no-passaran]

Genocide experts warn that India is about to genocide the Shompen people

Who are the Shompen?

The Shompen are an indigenous culture that lives in the Great Nicobar Island, which is nowadays owned by India. The Shompen and their ancestors are believed to have been living in this island for around 10,000 years. Like other tribes in the nearby islands, the Shompen are isolated from the rest of the world, as they chose to be left alone, with the exception of a few members who occasionally take part in exchanges with foreigners and go on quarantine before returning to their tribe. There are between 100 and 400 Shompen people, who are hunter-gatherers and nomadic agricultors and rely on their island's rainforest for survival.

Why is there risk of genocide?

India has announced a huge construction mega-project that will completely change the Great Nicobar Island to turn it into "the Hong Kong of India".

Nowadays, the island has 8,500 inhabitants, and over 95% of its surface is made up of national parks, protected forests and tribal reserve areas. Much of the island is covered by the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, described by UNESCO as covering “unique and threatened tropical evergreen forest ecosystems. It is home to very rich ecosystems, including 650 species of angiosperms, ferns, gymnosperms, and bryophytes, among others. In terms of fauna, there are over 1800 species, some of which are endemic to this area. It has one of the best-preserved tropical rain forests in the world.”

The Indian project aims to destroy this natural environment to create an international shipping terminal with the capacity to handle 14.2 million TEUs (unit of cargo capacity), an international airport that will handle a peak hour traffic of 4,000 passengers and that will be used as a joint civilian-military airport under the control of the Indian Navy, a gas and solar power plant, a military base, an industrial park, and townships aimed at bringing in tourism, including commercial, industrial and residential zones as well as other tourism-related activities.

This project means the destruction of the island's pristine rainforests, as it involves cutting down over 852,000 trees and endangers the local fauna such as leatherback turtles, saltwater crocodiles, Nicobar crab-eating macaque and migratory birds. The erosion resulting from deforestation will be huge in this highly-seismic area. Experts also warn about the effects that this project will have on local flora and fauna as a result of pollution from the terminal project, coastal surface runoff, ballasts from ships, physical collisions with ships, coastal construction, oil spills, etc.

The indigenous people are not only affected because their environment and food source will be destroyed. On top of this, the demographic change will be a catastrophe for them. After the creation of this project, the Great Nicobar Island -which now has 8,500 inhabitants- will receive a population of 650,000 settlers. Remember that the Shompen and Nicobarese people who live on this island are isolated, which means they do not have an immune system that can resist outsider illnesses. Academics believe they could die of disease if they come in contact with outsiders (think of the arrival of Europeans to the Americas after Christopher Columbus and the way that common European illnesses were lethal for indigenous Americans with no immunization against them).

And on top of all of this, the project might destroy the environment and the indigenous people just to turn out to be useless and sooner or later be abandoned. The naturalist Uday Mondal explains that “after all the destruction, the financial viability of the project remains questionable as all the construction material will have to be shipped to this remote island and it will have to compete with already well-established ports.” However, this project is important to India because they want to use the island as a military and commercial post to stop China's expansion in the region, since the Nicobar islands are located on one of the world's busiest sea routes.

Last year, 70 former government officials and ambassadors wrote to the Indian president saying the project would “virtually destroy the unique ecology of this island and the habitat of vulnerable tribal groups”. India's response has been to say that the indigenous tribes will be relocated "if needed", but that doesn't solve the problem. As a spokesperson for human rights group Survival International said: “The Shompen are nomadic and have clearly defined territories. Four of their semi-permanent settlements are set to be directly devastated by the project, along with their southern hunting and foraging territories. The Shompen will undoubtedly try to move away from the area destroyed, but there will be little space for them to go. To avoid a genocide, this deadly mega-project must be scrapped.”

On 7 February 2024, 39 scholars from 13 countries published an open letter to the Indian president warning that “If the project goes ahead, even in a limited form, we believe it will be a death sentence for the Shompen, tantamount to the international crime of genocide.”

How to help

The NGO Survival International has launched this campaign:

From this site, you just need to add your name and email and you will send an email to India's Tribal Affairs Minister and to the companies currently vying to build the first stage of the project.

Share it with your friends and acquittances and on social media.

Sources:

India’s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ‘death sentence’ for isolated tribe, 7 Feb 2024. The Guardian.

‘It will destroy them’: Indian mega-development could cause ‘genocide’ and ‘ecocide’, says charity, 8 Feb 2024. Geographical.

Genocide experts call on India's government to scrap the Great Nicobar mega-project, Feb 2024. Survival International.

The container terminal that could sink the Great Nicobar Island, 20 July 2022. Mongabay.

[Maps] Environmental path cleared for Great Nicobar mega project, 10 Oct 2022. Mongabay.

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[risetherivermoon]

that small like three second scene of Pavitr feeding dogs has like, healed everything wrong with me ever,

this one:

I LOVE HIM SM

#IDK WHY PEOPLE ARENT TALKING ABOUT THIS #ITS LIKE MY FAVORITE #and when hes like 'well another easy adventure for spiderman- *explodes*' #across the spiderverse #pavitr prabhakar #spider man: across the spider verse #spider man india #spiderman #spiderverse #me rambling

[curtwilde]

Port workers of India stand with Palestine

#THIS IS WHY YOU NEED UNIONS PEOPLE #palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #we stand with palestine #solidarity with palestine #we stand with gaza #gaza genocide #india #desiblr #desi tumblr #israel #south asia #stand with gaza #stand with palestine #from the river to the sea #ceasefire now #ceasefire

[itsnicsalad]

name a country beginning with v

#spiderman #spiderman across the spiderverse #across the spiderverse #fanart #miles morales #hobie brown #pavitr prabhakar #spiderpunk #spiderman india #i love british people (hobie brown) #if you saw me post this the first time no you didnt

[le-regrems]

This scene got me and my Silbling cracking, we were the only people besides one lady in cinema that laughed at it. Because it's true, British did steal all of their stuff.

#marvel #marvel comics #anti mcu #spider man #spider people #spider verse movie #across the spiderverse #into the spider verse #spider man: across the spider verse #spiderman india #pet #pavitr prabhakar #spiderman #cartoons #fuck the british #history

[milimeters-morales]

Pavitr definitely told his Maya Aunty about Miles’s embarrassing mistake btw trust me

#I’m glad they reached the ‘almost kill the other’ stage in their friendship so early . it makes stuff a lot easier for me #miles morales #spiderman #spider man #pavitr prabhakar #spider man india #spiderman india #if this movie was just miles embarrassing himself in front of cool people I’d still watch it. I’m a miles fan and a hater second #<- could never even consider or imagine hating miles #also. maya aunty…. please let me hold you my hopes werenthigh but god so far it looks good #m&m posts

[dearabsolutelynoone]

Charlotte and George’s “hate” sex montage >>> the air in my lungs

#charlotte and george are so unserious #for people who claim to hate each other that’s some pretty passionate sex #need harvard to conduct a study on india and corey’s chemistry #i’ve never seen anything like this in my LIFE #they are everything #bridgerton #bridgerton queen charlotte #queen charlotte a bridgerton story #queen charlotte #king george #charlotte x george #george x charlotte #charlotte and george #george and charlotte #india amarteifio #corey mylchreest

[mangotalkies]

"after all, how can one feel the loss of a thing whose existence one has become unconscious to?"

a wonderful collection of essential and constant truth bombs.

#india that is bharat #j. sai deepak #indian literature #indian history #non fiction #decolonisation #indigineous people #indigenous faith #coloniality and nature #indian academia #booklr #studyblr #notes #long reads #coffee #dark academia #light academia #desiblr #study blog #book photography #vsco

[jay-wasstuff]

I just woke up to Destiel News™ informing me of India becoming the first country to land on the lunar south pole of the moon with a budget lower than a goddamn hollywood film, like where else am I going to my news as clear cut and immediate as this? I love this app.

#destiel #spn #supernatural #india #chandrayaan3 #isro #the budget was approx 75million (not a lot for space projects) - Oppenheimer was approx 100million #also congrats to the team and the people! amazing work and historical event :)) #moon landing #desiblr

[kaalbela]

Fisherwomen of Udupi, India.

Indrajit Khambe

#indrajit khambe #street photography #people #peoplehood #udupi #maharashtra #india #ph #desi tag #desi tumblr #desiblr

[gethimbackpdf]

why do people hate on joe for working at the age of 16 at a yogurt shop and degradingly call him yogurt boy?😭 I've heard of so many people working at starbucks or mcdonalds at that age to make money why hate him? at least he did something later in life and now has a networth of 4 million dollars.. what do you have? a chronically online parasocial relationship with a 34 year old billionaire who doesn't even know you

#doesn't usually happen here in India i think but so many movies/fics/books show us that in foreign countries people work at that age #for extra credit or a little more money or whatever #this is mainly abt the tiktok and twitter swifties btw #posting this from my drafts on popular demand (1 mutual told me I'm so right for saying this) #scheduled post #I'm anti [twitter/tiktok] swifties btw not anti taylor #joe alwyn

[janetsnakehole02]

Just so people know - since Ms. Marvel is a show about a Pakistani family, they showed us how Hasan and his family were uprooted from their home on the Indian side of the border and forced to move to Pakistan because they were Muslim. What they didn’t show was the fact that the same thing was happening to Hindus and Sikhs on the Pakistani side of the border. Of course, I’m not saying that they should’ve, because it’s not a part of Kamala’s story so it isn’t the main focus. Plus they can only cover so much in 45 minutes. But I just want to clarify that because I know a lot of non-South Asian Marvel fans are learning about the Partition for the first time from this show and it’s important to know that just because certain things were not shown on screen doesn’t mean they didn’t happen in reality.

#the show is a good place to start but don’t rely on it for all your info #if you really do want to learn more about the partition then do your research #and talk to people from the subcontinent as well #ms marvel #ms marvel spoilers #ms marvel series #ms marvel disney+ #kamala khan #iman vellani #aisha #mehwish hayat #hasan #fawad khan #marvel #mcu #mcu phase 4 #mcu phase four #partition of india #partition #india #pakistan #hindu #sikh #muslim #desi #desi tumblr #desiblr

[scltbvrns]

homogenising something that has always been inherently diverse will kill us all one day.

#-> myra text #political critique #that is why hindutva should have not been popularised. hindutva is not decolonisation or reclamation. #it is homogenising and exclusionist. it takes away the diverse history of this country. #but this statement will reach deaf ears. rather than critiquing nobility they will go and bark casteist and islamphobic bs. #did invaders did what invaders do? yes. but this whole property destruction and lives being at risk has been going on for years. #biggest example who are quite popular: ajatshatru (son of bimbisara) & ashoka the great (the massacre at kaling) #i'm all in for criticising nobility i have no respect for any kings despite their religion and community and whatever. #they're all shits who benefited and left the common people to rot. #these people will say that tipu sultan is the devil reborn but will go on praising the marathas #as if the marathas did not cause a bloodshed in bengal karnataka and the punjab regions. not saying tipu is good but i rather #wanted to point out the hypocrisy of people in certain spaces. its a good thing to appreciate history and even better thing to learn from #the mistakes made in past but some of you guys did not understand the whole point. #absolute shit head cunts some of you guys are. come at me brand me whatever slurs you fuckers use i don't give a shit #calling people sex slaves just because they don't subscribe to your viewpoint is not the big own you think it is. #sanghi bs #india #hindutva

[divinum-pacis]

February 2024: Pooja Sharma taking another unclaimed body to a crematorium in Delhi. She says her vocation provides her with sukoon, or tranquillity.

Pooja Sharma says a prayer as another one of the unnamed dead in India’s capital is cremated. She has performed the service for about 4,000 unclaimed bodies, mostly those of the countless migrants who come to the vast city in search of work and lose touch with their families.

Photographs: Ruhani Kaur/The Guardian

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#religion #hinduism #people #funeral #death #dead bodies #india #divinum-pacis