About the basic decency of certain Indians

While I'm not a classic Vadakkan, I could be considered half. My ethnicity is Bengali but I'm the second generation born and raised in the classic cow belt. That's where I have also worked all my life. I have nothing against the language (or any language for that matter) but their default behaviour is another matter.

I used to behave like them as a youngster but experience has taught me some things. First, they still think Hindi is the national language despite the fact that India formally has no national language. Second, unless you count exceptions, their behaviour is the worst of all Indians. Rudeness is the default and they think using crude swear words is very smart. Third, they think their culture is the topmost but whatever there is, isn't any older than just a few centuries and nothing very distinctive (I'm quite familiar with it).

I had done my engineering internship from Trichy. That's a place where no one knew Hindi, and very few knew even English. This was at a time when Chennai was still called Madras. It took me about two weeks to pick up rudimentary Tamil to manage the basics. Now I visit Bengaluru for about a month every year and can manage basic Kannada. No language is really difficult to learn, it's simply a matter of intention. And yet they never try or even bother. It's funny because the same characters will learn Spanish or Russian if they are in such places.

Currently they are quite literally swarming like roaches (their tag, not mine) all over our city sub, which is about the same size as this one. They display all three characteristics to the maximum extent. It's called pre-planned brigading, but they are like real roaches, even more are born (or maybe reborn) than can practically be eliminated.

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u/LingoNerd64 — 1 day ago

Cultural Dharma

The festive season is not far off. Even if you disregard religion, we have a cultural way of life that's quite independent of whether you are observant or not. That's what we will hold on to and support. This is ours, not anything else. It's organically developed in this land.

u/LingoNerd64 — 1 day ago

A question

For context, I sometimes visit the global AMA sub and I saw a post from a guy who says he's Tiprasa from Tripura. He doesn't identify as Indian, says that racially and culturally he has nothing in common with India and that he considers all non indigenous people in the region as invaders. Is this a common way of thinking? If so, what are the reasons?

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u/LingoNerd64 — 4 days ago

Taki Zero Point

Predictably, we went to the Sonar Bangla resort. The adjoining river is Ichhamati, and over here it forms the border with BD. The visible far shore is Bangladesh, where you can see BDF posts with BD flags.

All boats must fly their flags at all times for identification. We have BSF posts on our side with night vision equipment and searchlights. You can cross the center point of the river but not get closer than ten meters of their side of the bank.

A little ahead you can get to the confluence of Bidyadhari and Kalindi with Ichhamati, the Mohana point. The resort is nice and right on the river bank, but a bit overpriced. Given that it's always full of tourists, it's expected.

u/LingoNerd64 — 4 days ago

বাংলা সাহিত্যের ভবিষ্যৎ কি?

আমি কল্পলোকে বাঁচি, বাস্তব পৃথিবীটা আমার কাছে চিরকালই কিছুটা অবাস্তব। ছোটবেলাটা কেটেছিল প্রচুর সাহিত্য পাঠ করে। আমি বাঙালি হলেও হিন্দিভাষী ক্ষেত্রে তিন প্রজন্মের প্রবাসী ছিলাম, তাই বাড়িতে ছাড়া বাংলা আর কোথাও সেরকম ব্যবহার হত না, অথবা বাংলা বইও বাড়ির বাইরে কোথাও দেখাতাম না। তাতে অবশ্য অসুবিধা ছিল না কারণ বাড়িতেই বাংলা সাহিত্য ছিল প্রচুর।

আমি তখনকার দিনের সন্দেশ পত্রিকার নিয়মিত পাঠক ছিলাম, সত্যজিৎ রায়ের গল্প উপন্যাস গুলো আমার ওখানেই পড়া। এছাড়া বাড়িতে দেশ পত্রিকা আসত আর তাতে থাকত সুনীল গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়ের সেই সময় উপন্যাসের ধারাবাহিক প্রকাশন। আর ছিল শরদিন্দু বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়ের সম্পূর্ণ রচনা সমগ্র, বনফুল, বিভূতিভূষণ, পরশুরাম ইত্যাদির প্রচুর বই। আনন্দমেলা কিশোর ভারতী এবং বিশেষ পূজা সংখ্যা প্রকাশনেরও কোন অভাব ছিল না।

বয়স হওয়ার সাথে সাথে নানা কারণে বাংলা সাহিত্যের সঙ্গে সম্পর্কটা খানিকটা ক্ষীণ হয়ে যায়। আজকাল আবার দেখছি যে কেউ যদি বা বাংলা লেখে সেটাও ইংরেজি অক্ষরে। দক্ষিণ এশিয়া নামক এই ভৌগোলিক ক্ষেত্রের বাইরে আমি এটা আর কাউকে করতে দেখিনি। বলাই বাহুল্য যে এটাতে সমস্যা আছে। ইংরেজি অক্ষরে লিখলে তাক আর টাকের মধ্যে কোন তফাৎ থাকে না।

আজও আমার কাছে সেই সত্যজিৎ শরদিন্দু এবং হেমেন্দ্র কুমার রায়ের সমগ্র আছে, আমি সেই দিনগুলোর পরে নতুন আর কাউকে খুঁজে পাইনি - অথবা ইংরেজির জগতে এতটাই ঢুকে পড়েছি যে বাংলার দিকে আর সেভাবে মনোযোগ দেওয়া হয় না। কিন্তু আমি তো একা নয়, আমার মত আরো বহু লোক আছে। বিশেষ করে ইন্টারনেটের তো ভাষাটাই ইংরেজি, অন্য কিছু ব্যবহার করার কারো কোনো প্রয়োজন সেভাবে নেই।

সেই জন্যই ভাবি যে ভবিষ্যতে বাংলা এবং অন্যান্য আঞ্চলিক ভাষার সাহিত্য এবং স্বাস্থ্যের কি পরিণাম হবে? কথাবার্তার মাধ্যমে হয়তো বা বেঁচে থাকবে কিন্তু সাহিত্য আর থাকবে কি?

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u/LingoNerd64 — 5 days ago

The first female combat pilot

Sabiha Gökçen, born Ćorović (1913 - 2001) was a Turkish aviator. During her career, she flew around 8,000 hours and participated in 32 different military operations. She became the world's first female fighter pilot at age 23. Sabiha was an orphan and one of the nine children adopted by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Her surname was given to her by Atatürk and it means "belonging to the sky". In fact, it's no exaggeration to say that Atatürk single handedly made her the first female aviator in an era when there were barely any female pilots, let alone fighter pilots. Amelia Earhart was much older when she disappeared around the same time that Sabiha became a combat pilot

Atatürk thought aviation was extremely important and oversaw the founding of the Turkish Aeronautical Association in 1925. He took Sabiha along with him to the opening ceremony of Türkkuşu Flight School. She was very excited during the airshow and when Atatürk asked her whether she wanted to become a skydiver, she said that she was ready right away.

Atatürk then asked the head of the school to enroll her as the first female trainee. She was intended to become a skydiver, but was much more interested in flying so she went on to earn her pilot's licence.

Together with seven male students, Sabiha was sent to Crimea for an advanced course in glider and powered aircraft piloting. While in Moscow, she learned that her sister Zehra had died, so she returned to Turkey and detached from social activities for a while.

Later at Atatürk's insistence, she got back to her training. She received special flight training and began flying motorized aircraft in 1936 at Eskişehir Aviation School. Atatürk was very happy and said he hoped she would be the first woman military pilot in the world from modern Turkey.

After receiving her flight diploma in 1937, she trained to become a war pilot at the 1st Airplane Regiment in Eskişehir for six months. She carried out several military sorties and air raids until 1938 and then went on to serve as a flight instructor until 1954 and trained four more Turkish female aviators, and continued flying around the world until 1964.

She died in the military academy hospital exactly on her 88th birthday. The Sabiha Gökçen International Airport in Istanbul is named after her and it opened two months before she died. The Guinness Book of World Records lists her as the first ever female combat pilot.

u/LingoNerd64 — 6 days ago

Real photo, no slop or meme

Just substitute the word employees with members and the word job with sub, then you could adopt it verbatim for any desi sub. We desis are among the worst globally when it comes to not littering and being well behaved in public. It's easy to understand why those traits become even worse under the mask of anonymity.

u/LingoNerd64 — 6 days ago

আরম্ভ হয়ে গেছে

আমাদের পরিবারে এমন কোন রীতি নেই যে জন্মাষ্টমীর আগে তালের বড়া খাওয়া যায় না।

u/LingoNerd64 — 6 days ago
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A teenaged resistance fighter

Albina Mali-Hočevar was born in Slovenia in 1925, and is a great example of resilience, strength and sheer courage at a very young age. At age 9 she started working to support her family. She then joined the resistance movement when she was just 16 years old.

The resistance group was led by Josip Broz Tito and fought against the Axis forces occupying Yugoslavia. Initially she was put on a nursing job but this was too boring for her, so she got into frontline action. She was brave from the start - by age 17, she had already been wounded twice in battle.

Right after turning 18, she sustained major injury that took out an eye and left her face permanently scarred when a mine exploded very close to her. Yet despite her injuries, she just kept on fighting. The given photo is a colourised version of her original black and white photo soon after the mine injury.

Later she became a nurse again, helping wounded soldiers while the war went on. Her case is representative of sacrifices that many made for freedom. Albina survived the war and lived to be 75, dying in 2001. Her legacy lives on as a symbol of bravery and resilience.

u/LingoNerd64 — 7 days ago
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FDA suspends Blinkit store’s food licence over cockroaches, hygiene lapses

আরশোলা থেকে কোথাও নিস্তার নেই। আমাদের এই সাবেও ভরে গেছে।

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u/LingoNerd64 — 9 days ago

Do you have anyone in your culture whose name is substituted for "traitor"?

The bearded guy (foreground) is Mir Jafar (1691 - 1765) with his eldest son Mir Miran. He was a general to Siraj ud Daula, the nawab (regent / viceroy / plenipotentiary) of Bengal on behalf of the Mughal emperor in Delhi. He betrayed the nawab to Robert Clive of the British East India company in order to be nawab himself and Bengal passed into British hands. Now his name is used to mean traitor, a bit like Judas Iscariot in Christianity.

u/LingoNerd64 — 10 days ago

Vande Mataram 🫡

They are seen in all defence academies and military installations. We owe our security to them, no matter what destabilizing stunts the far left pulls in its own interests and that of those who fund them.

u/LingoNerd64 — 11 days ago

Jharkhandis take no nonsense

Apparently she went uninvited to the student protests with her own nefarious agenda and raised *azadi* slogans. Jharkhandis don't stand for that sort of thing so they gave it right back on her face. No Kolkata type aantels there. Johar Jharkhand!

u/LingoNerd64 — 11 days ago
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AI companies are buying antique books for LLMs and then destroying them

Because they do not wish to leave any material for their competitors and also don't want the future generations to have resources other than AI, including slop.

AI poisoning is a thing since 2022, where the content on the internet is so polluted that it's impossible to tell fact from AI hallucination. If this is used to train even more LLMs, the chain effect escalates.

If we become totally dependent on AI content, we also become misinformed and more stupid in general. For example, no one who never read school textbooks in the 1970s will truly realize why most of my generation grew up left leaning, though many changed later due to other factors that AI will never explain well.

It's why I always refuse any suggestions for AI to do my writing and I don't even let it do any minor alterations. I know that by doing this, I am also becoming fodder for LLMs, but that's better than becoming their slave.

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u/LingoNerd64 — 14 days ago

Correct observation

And now let the libtards come and abuse the lady and me as аndhbhаkt, lT СеII and whatever else they say. They aren't capable of anything better anyway.

u/LingoNerd64 — 15 days ago

Kulgam Terror Attack: Two Migrant Workers Killed in Targeted Shooting, Search Operation Underway

মোল্লা ভাইরা আবার নিজেদের লাইনে চলে এসেছে। আরশোলা আন্দোলনের পরে এই ধরনের কিছু একটা ঘটতে পারে বলে আমি অনেকদিন থেকেই আশঙ্কিত ছিলাম। ওই পুরো ব্যাপারটাই রাষ্ট্রের নিরাপত্তার বিপরীত ছিল।

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u/LingoNerd64 — 19 days ago

engineering aar management pore ki chhatar korlam?

er theke toh tinu bhai der adday bus chalale kaje dito mone hocche. bechara parthor championship ta challenge hoye gelo majh theke.

u/LingoNerd64 — 20 days ago

desh bishakto agachhay chheye gechhe

dine dine redditer aaro obonoti ghotchhe dekhchhi. kichhukkhon aage umar khalid ebong sourav das er sombondhe likhte jacchilam je jara ugrobadider somorthon kore ebong jara bastobik ugrobadi, tader modhye khub ekta parthokyo nei. kintu na, ei maal guloi naki abar arshola der bhogoban.

udahoron hisebe likhchhilam je talibaner mulla omar nije kaoke akromon kore ni kintu osama ke se ashroy diyechhilo, sei jonyo takeo ugrobadi bole dhora hoy. tokhon reddit dekhi mulla likhtei amake khisti dicche - racist ebong community based slur na byabohar korte. ota jodi or naam hoy, seta ki amar somosya?

ami oboshyo jani, je gondomurkho gulo online e bham ponthi chechamechi kore, ogulo dhortobyer modhye na. kintu je haramjada gulo pechhon theke eder chabikathi kore, tara sanghatik. sei maal gulo ke dhore baki jiboner jonyo srighar baas korate parle tobei sobai nirapod.

deshdrohi aar ugrobadider ei deshe kono sthan nei ebong kokhonoi thakte parena.

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u/LingoNerd64 — 21 days ago