{"id":28606,"date":"2021-02-18T08:23:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T23:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/18\/disha-ravi-the-climate-activist-who-became-the-face-of-indias-crackdown-on-dissent"},"modified":"2021-02-18T08:23:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T23:23:50","slug":"disha-ravi-the-climate-activist-who-became-the-face-of-indias-crackdown-on-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28606","title":{"rendered":"Disha Ravi: the climate activist who became the face of India&#8217;s crackdown on dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 22-year-old who \u2018wears her heart on her sleeve\u2019 founded the Indian branch of the Fridays for Future network and organised strikes across the country<\/p>\n<p>On the streets of Bangalore the protesters gathered, residents standing defiantly alongside students and activists. Their placards bore slogans such as \u201cstanding for farmers is not sedition\u201d and \u201cwhen injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty\u201d and most held up a photo of a smiling young woman: 22-year-old Disha Ravi.<\/p>\n<p>Ravi has been a familiar figure in Bangalore\u2019s vibrant environmental circles for the past three years but over the weekend she became the face of the Indian government\u2019s heavy-handed crackdown on dissent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/18\/disha-ravi-the-climate-activist-who-became-the-face-of-indias-crackdown-on-dissent\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 22-year-old who \u2018wears her heart on her sleeve\u2019 founded the Indian branch of the Fridays for Future network and organised strikes across the countryOn the streets of Bangalore the protesters gathered, residents standing defiantly alongside students&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","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\/28606","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28713,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28606\/revisions\/28713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}