{"id":41966,"date":"2022-02-25T14:30:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T05:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/25\/a-flashy-theme-park-outcry-over-modis-plans-for-the-gandhi-ashram"},"modified":"2022-02-25T14:30:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T05:30:04","slug":"a-flashy-theme-park-outcry-over-modis-plans-for-the-gandhi-ashram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41966","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A flashy theme park\u2019: outcry over Modi\u2019s plans for the Gandhi ashram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The site Mahatma Gandhi lived at during 1917-30 is getting a very costly makeover many think is meant to distort his legacy<\/p>\n<p>Like most things in Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s life, his ashram in the Indian city of Ahmedabad was simple and austere. Yet between 1917 and 1930, these modest white bungalows, set on the bank of the Sabarmati river in the state of Gujarat, were the beating heart of Gandhi\u2019s non-violent freedom struggle against British rule and his experiments in upending India\u2019s oppressive caste system.<\/p>\n<p>Gandhi \u2013 who would eventually lead India to independence and remains a global icon for peace \u2013 left the Sabarmati ashram in 1930, never to return, and in the years since, it has become one of India\u2019s most sacrosanct sites. It is where Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, Xi Jinping, Benjamin Netanyahu and most recently Donald Trump all paid a visit to during their trips to India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/25\/a-flashy-theme-park-outcry-over-modis-plans-for-the-gandhi-ashram\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The site Mahatma Gandhi lived at during 1917-30 is getting a very costly makeover many think is meant to distort his legacyLike most things in Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s life, his ashram in the Indian city of Ahmedabad was simple and austere. Yet between 1917 an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1026,"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":[62,831,433,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-mahatma-gandhi","category-narendra-modi","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\/41966","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\/1026"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41967,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41966\/revisions\/41967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}