{"id":107,"date":"2004-09-11T23:48:37","date_gmt":"2004-09-12T04:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/server97.snhdns.com\/~ravik\/wp\/?p=107"},"modified":"2004-09-11T23:48:37","modified_gmt":"2004-09-12T04:48:37","slug":"on-forgeries-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200409\/on-forgeries-and-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"On forgeries and stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently some idiot in the US forged a document claiming to be a 30 year-old memo using MS Word. That story is all over the American blogosphere and it isn&#8217;t a very interesting one for someone in India. <\/p>\n<p>But then, I have some gmail invites to give away and&#8230; I haven&#8217;t asked my readers a question to show off my knowledge for quite some time, so I might as well ask a question and set a prize&#8230; a Gmail Invite! (is there <b>anyone<\/b> who still wants it?)<\/p>\n<p>There was a forgery scandal in India that was, in a sense, a mirror image of the one that is happening in the US. Someone had used a <i>manual typewriter<\/i> to forge a document said to have originated in a foreign country, and someone immediately pointed out that the manual typewriter was a museum piece in the rest of the civilized world. <\/p>\n<p>Which scandal am I talking of?<br \/>\n(Hint: Try to narrow down the period during which it might have occurred.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently some idiot in the US forged a document claiming to be a 30 year-old memo using MS Word. That story is all over the American blogosphere and it isn&#8217;t a very interesting one for someone in India. But then, I have some gmail invites to give away and&#8230; I haven&#8217;t asked my readers a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}