{"id":27154,"date":"2021-01-21T14:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/21\/india-amazon-prime-drama-tandav-agrees-to-changes-after-hindu-nationalist-pressure"},"modified":"2021-01-21T14:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T05:00:22","slug":"amazon-prime-drama-agrees-to-changes-after-hindu-nationalist-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27154","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Prime drama agrees to changes after Hindu nationalist pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director of Tandav agrees to remove scenes deemed to insult Hindu gods and office of Indian prime minister<\/p>\n<p>An Indian political drama on Amazon Prime has been forced to edit out scenes that were accused of being an \u201cinsult to Hindu gods\u201d, the first time that streaming platforms have been subjected to Indian government censorship.<\/p>\n<p>Tandav, a gritty political drama made by Amazon Prime, one of the world\u2019s largest streaming platforms, had faced growing controversy since it launched last week over allegations it had \u201churt Hindu religious sentiments\u201d and insulted the office of the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/21\/india-amazon-prime-drama-tandav-agrees-to-changes-after-hindu-nationalist-pressure\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director of Tandav agrees to remove scenes deemed to insult Hindu gods and office of Indian prime ministerAn Indian political drama on Amazon Prime has been forced to edit out scenes that were accused of being an \u201cinsult to Hindu gods\u201d, the first time &#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":[510,458,62,238,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon-prime-video","category-censorship","category-india","category-media","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\/27154","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=27154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27157,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27154\/revisions\/27157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}