{"id":15047,"date":"2020-02-26T22:12:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T13:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/feb\/26\/violence-delhi-modi-project-bjp-citizenship-law"},"modified":"2020-02-26T22:12:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T13:12:52","slug":"anti-muslim-violence-in-delhi-serves-modi-well-mukul-kesavan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15047","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Muslim violence in Delhi serves Modi well | Mukul Kesavan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clashes have been driven by a ruling party intent on painting its largely peaceful opponents as seditious sectarians<\/p>\n<p>Since Sunday violent mobs in north-east Delhi have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/26\/delhi-protests-death-toll-climbs-amid-worst-religious-violence-for-decades\" title=\"\">killed <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/26\/delhi-protests-death-toll-climbs-amid-worst-religious-violence-for-decades\" title=\"\">21 people<\/a> including a police constable, injured hundreds of others, burned motor vehicles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/25\/delhi-rocked-by-deadly-protests-during-donald-trumps-india-visit\" title=\"\">set fire to shops and homes<\/a>, assaulted journalists, vandalised places of worship and destroyed a shrine.<\/p>\n<p>The time-honoured convention for reporting on communal violence in India is to not name names. In news reports it is always \u201cviolent members of one religious community\u201d attacking violent members of another. This anonymising ritual has the distorting effect of turning unequal violence into a symmetrical tug of war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/feb\/26\/violence-delhi-modi-project-bjp-citizenship-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clashes have been driven by a ruling party intent on painting its largely peaceful opponents as seditious sectariansSince Sunday violent mobs in north-east Delhi have killed 21 people including a police constable, injured hundreds of others, burned mot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"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":[516,62,447,432,433,80,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-islam","category-kashmir","category-narendra-modi","category-protest","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047","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\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15048,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047\/revisions\/15048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}