{"id":14638,"date":"2020-02-18T19:49:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T10:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/18\/hindu-god-shiva-given-seat-on-kashi-mahakal-express"},"modified":"2020-02-18T19:49:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T10:49:21","slug":"hindu-god-shiva-given-seat-on-kashi-mahakal-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14638","title":{"rendered":"Hindu god Shiva given seat on Kashi-Mahakal Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say move was to \u2018seek blessings\u2019 for train taking people to pilgrimage sites<\/p>\n<p>Indian rail authorities allocated a berth on a train on Sunday for the Hindu god Shiva, raising eyebrows in a country led by Narendra Modi\u2019s hardline Hindu nationalist BJP party.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in charge of the Kashi-Mahakal Express, which was flagged off by the Indian prime minister, booked the upper berth in a second-class, air-conditioned compartment for the god known as the cosmic destroyer on the train\u2019s inaugural run.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/18\/hindu-god-shiva-given-seat-on-kashi-mahakal-express\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say move was to \u2018seek blessings\u2019 for train taking people to pilgrimage sitesIndian rail authorities allocated a berth on a train on Sunday for the Hindu god Shiva, raising eyebrows in a country led by Narendra Modi\u2019s hardline Hindu national&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"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":[516,62,433,766,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-rail-transport","category-religion","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\/14638","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\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14639,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14638\/revisions\/14639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}