{"id":23321,"date":"2020-10-01T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/oct\/01\/indias-classical-music-and-dance-guru-system-hit-by-abuse-allegations"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T05:30:00","slug":"indias-classical-music-and-dance-guru-system-hit-by-abuse-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23321","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s classical music and dance &#8216;guru&#8217; system hit by abuse allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Female musicians say abuse by gurus has been an open secret for years in a culture where \u2018toxic and old-fashioned patriarchy\u2019 holds sway<\/p>\n<p>One of India\u2019s most venerated cultural traditions \u2013 the centuries-old <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guru%E2%80%93shishya_tradition#:~:text=The%20bhakti%20form%20of%20the,to%20the%20(successful)%20shishya.\">guru-shishya<\/a><\/em> (disciple) method of learning classical music and dance \u2013 has been hit by allegations of sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p>A group of 90 female classical musicians issued a statement in September, alleging sexual abuse and exploitation of female disciples by their gurus. They described a \u201cfear-driven culture of silence\u201d that forced women to submit to the sexual demands of their gurus for fear of having to end their careers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/oct\/01\/indias-classical-music-and-dance-guru-system-hit-by-abuse-allegations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female musicians say abuse by gurus has been an open secret for years in a culture where \u2018toxic and old-fashioned patriarchy\u2019 holds swayOne of India\u2019s most venerated cultural traditions \u2013 the centuries-old guru-shishya (disciple) method of learning cla&#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":[1078,59,62,336,440,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance","category-global-development","category-india","category-sexual-harassment","category-sexual-violence","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","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\/23321","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=23321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23322,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23321\/revisions\/23322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}