{"id":26930,"date":"2021-01-17T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/17\/mahatma-gandhis-killer-venerated-as-hindu-nationalism-resurges-in-india"},"modified":"2021-01-17T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T05:00:07","slug":"mahatma-gandhis-killer-venerated-as-hindu-nationalism-resurges-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26930","title":{"rendered":"Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s killer venerated as Hindu nationalism resurges in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathuram Godse rehabilitated from traitor to patriot for many, as Gandi\u2019s vision of secular India eroded by ruling BJP <\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday, in a nondescript building in the India city of Gwalior, 200 miles south of Delhi, a large crowd of men gathered. Most wore bright saffron hats and scarves, a colour evoking Hindu nationalism, and many held strands of flowers as devotional offerings.<\/p>\n<p>They were there to attend the inauguration of the Godse Gyan Shala, a memorial library and \u201cknowledge centre\u201d dedicated to Nathuram Godse, the man who shot Mahatma Gandhi. The devotional yellow and pink flowers were laid around a black and white photograph of Godse, the centrepiece of the room.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/17\/mahatma-gandhis-killer-venerated-as-hindu-nationalism-resurges-in-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathuram Godse rehabilitated from traitor to patriot for many, as Gandi\u2019s vision of secular India eroded by ruling BJP Last Sunday, in a nondescript building in the India city of Gwalior, 200 miles south of Delhi, a large crowd of men gathered. Most wo&#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":[516,62,831,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-mahatma-gandhi","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\/26930","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=26930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26954,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26930\/revisions\/26954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}