{"id":4983,"date":"2019-07-29T23:58:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T14:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/jul\/29\/indias-strongman-pm-modi-to-appear-on-bear-grylls-man-vs-wild"},"modified":"2019-07-29T23:58:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T14:58:24","slug":"indias-strongman-pm-modi-to-appear-on-bear-grylls-man-vs-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=4983","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s strongman PM: Modi to appear on Bear Grylls&#8217; Man vs Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra Modi claims the programme will showcase India\u2019s \u2018beautiful mountains and mighty rivers\u2019, in the latest in a string of choreographed media appearances<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, will appear with Bear Grylls in a wilderness survival television programme, the latest in a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/sep\/09\/putin-macho-stunt-fitness-fitspiration-instagam\">Putin-style<\/a> media appearances in which the 68-year-old leader projects himself as a man of action and a champion of the environment.<\/p>\n<p>A trailer for the programme, Man vs Wild, which will air in India on 12 August, shows the two men cutting through forests, sniffing animal dung and floating down a river on a makeshift raft. In one scene, Modi holds an improvised spear and tells Grylls: \u201cI\u2019ll hold this for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/jul\/29\/indias-strongman-pm-modi-to-appear-on-bear-grylls-man-vs-wild\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra Modi claims the programme will showcase India\u2019s \u2018beautiful mountains and mighty rivers\u2019, in the latest in a string of choreographed media appearancesIndia\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, will appear with Bear Grylls in a wilderness survival t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"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":[65,462,59,62,79,61,463,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-environmental-sustainability","category-global-development","category-india","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sustainable-development","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\/4983","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\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4984,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions\/4984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}