{"id":28741,"date":"2021-02-21T19:15:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T10:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/21\/not-cricket-religious-divide-threatens-last-bastion-secular-india"},"modified":"2021-02-21T19:15:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T10:15:26","slug":"not-cricket-religious-divide-threatens-a-last-bastion-of-secular-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28741","title":{"rendered":"Not cricket: religious divide threatens a last bastion of secular India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allegations against Wasim Jaffer of favouritism raise fears that anti-Muslim sentiment is infecting the game<\/p>\n<p>It is often described as India\u2019s greatest unifier, a sport that \u2013 at least on the field \u2013 has been insulated from the religious schisms that have long divided the country.<\/p>\n<p>But in recent weeks cricket\u2019s position as one of the final bastions of a secular India has come under attack, as the anti-Muslim sentiment that has been on the rise in India under the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) reared its head in an ugly cricketing scandal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/21\/not-cricket-religious-divide-threatens-last-bastion-secular-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allegations against Wasim Jaffer of favouritism raise fears that anti-Muslim sentiment is infecting the gameIt is often described as India\u2019s greatest unifier, a sport that \u2013 at least on the field \u2013 has been insulated from the religious schisms that hav&#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":[499,62,371,61,203,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cricket","category-india","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","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\/28741","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=28741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28744,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28741\/revisions\/28744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}