{"id":16626,"date":"2020-03-30T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/mar\/30\/as-the-wealthy-quaff-wine-in-comfort-indias-poor-are-thrown-to-the-wolves-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-03-30T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T06:00:16","slug":"as-the-wealthy-quaff-wine-in-comfort-indias-poor-are-thrown-to-the-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16626","title":{"rendered":"As the wealthy quaff wine in comfort, India\u2019s poor are thrown to the wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the country in lockdown because of coronavirus, deep social inequalities have been exposed more sharply than ever <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cSauvignon blanc or viognier\u201d? As the words left my mouth, my son and I locked eyes, our expressions flashing from shame-faced to half laughing at the irony. My live-in maid Ranjita had just laid out dinner and, since the fish and lyonnaise potatoes looked appetising, I thought it deserved a bottle of wine.<\/p>\n<p>For people like us, under lockdown, the existential questions that punctuate our daily lives are: is it to be Curb Your Enthusiasm or Line of Duty, Netflix or Hotstar?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/mar\/30\/as-the-wealthy-quaff-wine-in-comfort-indias-poor-are-thrown-to-the-wolves-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the country in lockdown because of coronavirus, deep social inequalities have been exposed more sharply than ever Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage\u201cSauvignon blanc or viognier\u201d? As the words left my mouth, my son and I l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"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":[1069,59,62,1203,914,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-global-development","category-india","category-inequality","category-infectious-diseases","category-narendra-modi","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\/16626","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\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16657,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16626\/revisions\/16657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}