"The US withdrew from Afghanistan, but that is clearly Central Asia and not South Asia (unless it's defined differently in India?)."

India considers Afghanistan part of or ought to be part of India. It even has a map for it.

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/09/30/bjps-akhand-bharat-dre...

That is quite a map on its own merits. It doesn't make Afghanistan 'South Asia' in their conception.

Out of curiosity, do you know anything about the publication, Modern Diplomacy? It has a lot of interesting coverage that isn't generally available elsewhere, but I have no idea how much and in what ways to trust it.

The concept of ‘Akhand Bharat’ dates back to the 1930s and the map is displayed prominently in the newly built Indian parliament last year. So, it is not some fringe ideology,

Rationally, it's still fringe. Like many far-right parties today, in Europe, the US, Latin America, etc., the BJP has built popular support for fringe ideas.

We too quickly forget our history if we don't expect that or think popularity confers rational or moral legitimacy: Mao, Lenin/Stalin, Hitler, not to mention Pol Pot, Suharto, Pinochet, etc etc. were very popular.

I don't pro anything. I am against the ethnic cleansing and extermination of a people. In this case, the people are the Palestinian people.

How are you going to monetize it? Your site has no mention of pricing.

I'm going to charge organizations a monthly fee for using the hosted SaaS service.

Implementing billing and setting pricing is next on my TODO list!

Will the billing system itself also be an open source plug-in for datasette? :D

Sadly not, it's going to be a Stripe subscription management dashboard!

So now you have to manage both the core software and the hosted version.

Whereas your competitor just needs to build a hosted version, use the core you provide for free, thereby having a fraction of the expense and the ability to undercut you on price.

You have to realize going in that once you try to monetize your open source, some of your users become your competitors. They’ll tell you how great you are, while cashing checks off your hard work.

I'm ready to take that risk. WordPress and GitLab seemed to survive it OK.

Survivorship bias.

Exactly. Knowingly endangering the lives of vulnerable people is despicable.

The article says there are five main castes with thousands of sub-castes. To be precise the Dalits are not considered a caste. They are outside of the Caste system and lower than the lowest of the low, the Sudras. In practice however today's Indian has seven Caste, at least normalized in Western countries such as Europe and the US. In this revised Caste system, the Whites are at the top, higher than the Brahmins and Blacks are at the bottom, lower than the Dalits. I have witnessed firsthand how a Black colleague of mine was treated by his Indian counterparts in the IT industry. It is pretty disgusting to say the least.

Is Chữ Nôm part of the unicode?

Has anybody made decisions or voiced opinions for the company's good, knowing that such action is detrimental to their career?

There is A LOT of dirty little things you don't know about India. And it is not just the usual oppression of the Dalits and Muslims. I will talk about it in due time.

Until the British arrived the subcontinent was a mishmash of thousands of fiefdoms that were at each other's throat. That looks balkanization to me.

You need to read a little more history then! India's history goes much further than that. Read up on The Maurya Empire

Surely the British arrived in India well after 0 AD. Not sure how an empire that disolved long before then would matter to what the British saw when they first reached India.

I'm just citing one example from the many. India as an entity has been dissolved and established multiples times in the history. British came at the weak period of India, essentially during a long civil war that was going on across the whole subcontinent.

"India as an entity has been dissolved and established multiples times in the history."

I found it interesting that Indians for some reason like to insist on this absurdity. There must be some benefits or advantages of making such claim.

If you keep calling historical facts as absurdity then there's nothing to debate here

The Maurya Empire? Yeah right. You should thank the British for the Maurya empire. The so-called Maurya Empire was cooked up by a pseudo historian by the name of James Prinsep to instill a sense of one people for political purpose. The British at the time assumed the British empire in South Asia was forever and it was hard to rule a place when the people practically hate each other historically. This Maurya Empire thing is a way for the British to create some glue for their subjects. Called it a British duplicity if you will.

Pseudo Historian so good that he cooked up all the ancient texts, ashoka pillar, coinage, stupa, architectural remains, etc right?

Anyways! Can you cite a non-pseudo source for you claims?

Yeah, a pillar here and a coin dug up there and you can weave a whole story. It this is true I would assume the British would learn this history from the native people in the subcontinent instead of the other way. It would be like the Europeans have never heard of the Roman Empire or Julius Caesar until they learned it from Japan.

Like i said, any credible source for what you are claiming?