{"id":7017,"date":"2019-08-13T19:40:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T10:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/aug\/13\/priyanka-chopra-row-over-kashmir-shows-all-problems-with-celebrity-activism"},"modified":"2019-08-13T19:40:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T10:40:37","slug":"priyanka-chopras-row-over-kashmir-shows-all-the-problems-with-celebrity-activism-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7017","title":{"rendered":"Priyanka Chopra\u2019s row over Kashmir shows all the problems with celebrity activism | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trust in institutions has melted away \u2013 so stars such as Chopra, who was accused this week of \u2018encouraging nuclear war\u2019, are attempting to fill the gap<\/p>\n<p>Ayesha Malik had more of a comment than a question. Malik, a 28-year-old Pakistani-American, had spent an uneventful Saturday at BeautyCon, a beauty festival in Los Angeles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/13\/priyanka-chopra-accused-of-encouraging-nuclear-war-with-pakistan\" title=\"\">until she was handed the mic at a Q&amp;A with the Indian actor Priyanka Chopra<\/a>. BeautyCon chat is usually more cashmere than Kashmir, but Chopra had been waxing lyrical about her humanitarian activities, which irked Malik.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was kind of hard hearing you talk about humanity, because, as your neighbour, a Pakistani, I know you are a bit of a hypocrite,\u201d Malik said, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/priyankachopra\/status\/1100454040364707840\" title=\"\">referencing a tweet that Chopra had sent in support of the Indian armed forces on 26 February<\/a>, the same day India conducted airstrikes in Pakistan. \u201cYou are a Unicef ambassador for peace and you are encouraging nuclear war against Pakistan,\u201d Malik continued.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/aug\/13\/priyanka-chopra-row-over-kashmir-shows-all-problems-with-celebrity-activism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trust in institutions has melted away \u2013 so stars such as Chopra, who was accused this week of \u2018encouraging nuclear war\u2019, are attempting to fill the gapAyesha Malik had more of a comment than a question. Malik, a 28-year-old Pakistani-American, had spen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"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":[69,62,432,60,4,598,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-india","category-kashmir","category-pakistan","category-politics","category-priyanka-chopra","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\/7017","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\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7018,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017\/revisions\/7018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}