{"id":51973,"date":"2023-01-19T03:23:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T18:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/18\/indian-diamond-heiress-gives-up-fortune-to-become-child-nun"},"modified":"2023-01-19T03:23:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T18:23:44","slug":"indian-diamond-heiress-gives-up-fortune-to-become-child-nun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51973","title":{"rendered":"Indian diamond heiress gives up fortune to become child nun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight-year-old daughter of wealthy gem dealer follows family\u2019s Jain faith to enter strict religious order<\/p>\n<p>An eight-year-old girl in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/india\">India<\/a> who was due to inherit a multimillion-dollar diamond fortune has instead been admitted as a nun to a strict religious order after renouncing worldly pleasures.<\/p>\n<p>Devanshi Sanghvi was, until this week, an heiress to the Sanghvi and Sons jewellery business in the western city of Surat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2007\/jan\/21\/india.theobserver\">known locally as Diamond City for its prominence in the global gem trade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/18\/indian-diamond-heiress-gives-up-fortune-to-become-child-nun\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight-year-old daughter of wealthy gem dealer follows family\u2019s Jain faith to enter strict religious orderAn eight-year-old girl in India who was due to inherit a multimillion-dollar diamond fortune has instead been admitted as a nun to a strict religio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3534,"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":[6,62,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-india","category-religion","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\/51973","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\/3534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51999,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51973\/revisions\/51999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}