{"id":18539,"date":"2020-05-21T19:28:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T10:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2020\/may\/21\/modi-the-fanatic-is-using-the-coronavirus-crisis-to-destroy-indias-heritage"},"modified":"2020-05-21T19:28:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T10:28:40","slug":"modi-the-fanatic-is-using-the-coronavirus-crisis-to-destroy-indias-heritage-anish-kapoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18539","title":{"rendered":"Modi the fanatic is using the coronavirus crisis to destroy India&#8217;s heritage | Anish Kapoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A disastrous redevelopment of Lutyens\u2019 parliament buildings in Delhi is being rushed through to cement the PM\u2019s legacy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/21\/modis-plan-to-rebuild-india-parliament-draws-fierce-criticism-anish-kapoor\">Modi\u2019s plan to rebuild India\u2019s parliament draws fierce criticism<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cNever let a good crisis go to waste,\u201d Winston Churchill once declared \u2026 Crisis offers, of course, an opportunity for draconian governments to hide their deeper purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Just such deeper purpose is hidden in India\u2019s fascist government\u2019s decision to push forward now in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis with the redevelopment of the so-called central vista in Delhi.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2020\/may\/21\/modi-the-fanatic-is-using-the-coronavirus-crisis-to-destroy-indias-heritage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A disastrous redevelopment of Lutyens\u2019 parliament buildings in Delhi is being rushed through to cement the PM\u2019s legacyModi\u2019s plan to rebuild India\u2019s parliament draws fierce criticism\u201cNever let a good crisis go to waste,\u201d Winston Churchill once declared&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1329,"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":[465,91,1069,71,62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art-and-design","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-culture","category-india","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\/18539","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\/1329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18540,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18539\/revisions\/18540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}