{"id":25149,"date":"2020-11-27T21:34:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/27\/netflix-india-version-vikram-seth-novel-stirs-love-jihad-suspicions-rows"},"modified":"2020-11-27T21:34:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:34:49","slug":"bbcs-a-suitable-boy-rankles-love-jihad-conspiracy-theorists-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25149","title":{"rendered":"BBC&#8217;s A Suitable Boy rankles &#8216;love jihad&#8217; conspiracy theorists in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BJP reaction to depiction of Hindu-Muslim romance adds to recent rows over interfaith marriages<\/p>\n<p>When the BBC\u2019s adaptation of Vikram\u2019s Seth\u2019s novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2020\/jul\/20\/a-suitable-boy-india-bbc-historical-drama-mira-nair-vikram-seth\">A Suitable Boy<\/a> recently landed on Indian Netflix it did not take long for the fanfare to turn to controversy.<\/p>\n<p>The series, it was claimed by politicians from the ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), had \u201churt religious sentiments\u201d of Hindus by depicting the lead character, a Hindu girl called Lata, passionately kissing a Muslim boy against the backdrop of a temple.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/27\/netflix-india-version-vikram-seth-novel-stirs-love-jihad-suspicions-rows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJP reaction to depiction of Hindu-Muslim romance adds to recent rows over interfaith marriagesWhen the BBC\u2019s adaptation of Vikram\u2019s Seth\u2019s novel A Suitable Boy recently landed on Indian Netflix it did not take long for the fanfare to turn to controver&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"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":[511,516,53,62,447,509,371,61,520,1578,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-hinduism","category-human-rights","category-india","category-islam","category-netflix","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-television","category-vikram-seth","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\/25149","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25164,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25149\/revisions\/25164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}