{"id":27844,"date":"2021-02-05T04:04:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T19:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/04\/greta-thunberg-effigies-burned-in-delhi-after-tweets-on-farmers-protests"},"modified":"2021-02-05T04:04:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T19:04:05","slug":"greta-thunberg-effigies-burned-in-delhi-after-tweets-on-farmers-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27844","title":{"rendered":"Greta Thunberg effigies burned in Delhi after tweets on farmers&#8217; protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrity interventions inflame sentiments in India as police investigate pro-farmers toolkit<\/p>\n<p>Counter-protesters in Delhi have burned effigies of the Swedish environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg after she tweeted support for India\u2019s protesting farmers in posts that have prompted an investigation by Indian police.<\/p>\n<p>Crowds gathered in Delhi to protest against several international celebrities including Thunberg and the pop singer Rihanna, who inflamed sentiments in India and angered the government after tweeting about the ongoing farmer protests this week. Photos of Thunberg and Rihanna were set alight and banners were held aloft warning that \u201cinternational interference\u201d in Indian affairs would not be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/04\/greta-thunberg-effigies-burned-in-delhi-after-tweets-on-farmers-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrity interventions inflame sentiments in India as police investigate pro-farmers toolkitCounter-protesters in Delhi have burned effigies of the Swedish environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg after she tweeted support for India\u2019s protesting farmer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"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":[820,62,1882,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greta-thunberg","category-india","category-rihanna","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\/27844","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27853,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27844\/revisions\/27853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}