{"id":11817,"date":"2019-12-05T19:54:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T10:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/05\/fugitive-indian-guru-establishes-island-nation-off-ecuador"},"modified":"2019-12-05T19:54:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T10:54:31","slug":"fugitive-indian-guru-establishes-island-nation-off-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11817","title":{"rendered":"Fugitive Indian guru establishes island nation &#8216;off Ecuador&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nithyananda, who is facing charges of abduction and rape, announces \u2018world\u2019s greatest and purest Hindu nation\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A fugitive guru and self-anointed \u201cgodman\u201d who is facing charges of abduction and rape in India has established his own island nation, reportedly off the coast of Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>Nithyananda, who built up a huge spiritual following in India, is currently on the run from the Gujarat police over multiple allegations that he abducted and confined children to collect donations for his ashram and that he raped one of his disciples.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/05\/fugitive-indian-guru-establishes-island-nation-off-ecuador\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nithyananda, who is facing charges of abduction and rape, announces \u2018world\u2019s greatest and purest Hindu nation\u2019A fugitive guru and self-anointed \u201cgodman\u201d who is facing charges of abduction and rape in India has established his own island nation, reporte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11825,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817\/revisions\/11825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}