{"id":61194,"date":"2024-01-15T22:49:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T13:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/15\/divine-moment-or-political-gimmick-india-gears-up-to-inaugurate-huge-hindu-temple"},"modified":"2024-01-15T22:49:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T13:49:18","slug":"divine-moment-or-political-gimmick-india-gears-up-to-inaugurate-huge-hindu-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61194","title":{"rendered":"Divine moment or political gimmick? India gears up to inaugurate huge Hindu temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modi government\u2019s consecration of Ram Mandir on eve of elections denounced by opposition<\/p>\n<p>Amid the deafening roar of construction and exuberant cries of visiting devotees, the outlines of India\u2019s largest Hindu temple are gradually emerging.<\/p>\n<p>For now, Ram Mandir, in the holy town of Ayodhya, is only half built. The grand pillars, vast domes stretching 49 metres (161ft) high, and elaborate gateways and carvings that will eventually form the final architecture of this much-anticipated temple have all yet to be completed; instead it remains largely a building site, filled with dust, bulldozers, scaffolding and high fences to prevent intruders.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/15\/divine-moment-or-political-gimmick-india-gears-up-to-inaugurate-huge-hindu-temple\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modi government\u2019s consecration of Ram Mandir on eve of elections denounced by oppositionAmid the deafening roar of construction and exuberant cries of visiting devotees, the outlines of India\u2019s largest Hindu temple are gradually emerging.For now, Ram M&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4107,"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":[62,433,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/61194","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\/4107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61195,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61194\/revisions\/61195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}