{"id":43647,"date":"2022-04-19T00:55:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T15:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/18\/hatred-bigotry-and-untruth-communal-violence-grips-india"},"modified":"2022-04-19T00:55:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T15:55:10","slug":"hatred-bigotry-and-untruth-communal-violence-grips-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43647","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hatred, bigotry and untruth\u2019: communal violence grips India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country appears more divided than ever along Hindu-Muslim lines \u2013 and for many, Modi\u2019s BJP is to blame<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The procession had begun peacefully. Marching through the streets of Delhi\u2019s Jahangirpuri district on Saturday, the devotees had gathered to celebrate the Hindu festival of Hanuman Jayanti. But the peace did not last long. As the evening drew in, an unauthorised parade began to gather. This time, men clad in saffron, the signature colour of Hindu nationalism, filled the streets brandishing swords and pistols, and started to shout provocative communal slogans.<\/p>\n<p>Ignoring previous agreements between Hindu and Muslim residents for the procession to avoid passing by a local mosque, they charged toward it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/18\/hatred-bigotry-and-untruth-communal-violence-grips-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country appears more divided than ever along Hindu-Muslim lines \u2013 and for many, Modi\u2019s BJP is to blameThe procession had begun peacefully. Marching through the streets of Delhi\u2019s Jahangirpuri district on Saturday, the devotees had gathered to celebrate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1847,"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":[353,62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43647","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\/1847"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43653,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43647\/revisions\/43653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}