{"id":64784,"date":"2024-06-09T01:08:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T16:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/08\/a-sweet-breeze-amid-a-heatwave-liberals-feel-hope-again-following-narendra-modis-loss-of-his-majority-india"},"modified":"2024-06-09T01:08:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T16:08:56","slug":"a-sweet-breeze-amid-a-heatwave-liberals-feel-hope-again-following-narendra-modis-loss-of-his-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64784","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A sweet breeze amid a heatwave\u2019: liberals feel hope again following Narendra Modi\u2019s loss of his majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fears for the future of democracy and tolerance recede after authoritarian PM left reliant on coalition partners<\/p>\n<p>In the leafy surrounds of Delhi\u2019s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), a pocket of students sat beneath a&nbsp;banyan tree engaged in impassioned evening \u00adconversation. As usual, it was about politics \u2013 but this time the mood was different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time in a decade, we have hope,\u201d said Antariksh Sharma, who is doing his PhD in the arts. \u201cIt&nbsp;is like a sweet cold breeze amid a&nbsp;heatwave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/08\/a-sweet-breeze-amid-a-heatwave-liberals-feel-hope-again-following-narendra-modis-loss-of-his-majority-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears for the future of democracy and tolerance recede after authoritarian PM left reliant on coalition partnersIn the leafy surrounds of Delhi\u2019s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), a pocket of students sat beneath a&nbsp;banyan tree engaged in impassio&#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":[505,71,69,62,3091,433,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bollywood","category-culture","category-film","category-india","category-india-elections-2024","category-narendra-modi","category-protest","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\/64784","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=64784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64785,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64784\/revisions\/64785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}