{"id":136,"date":"2004-10-01T13:22:49","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T18:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/server97.snhdns.com\/~ravik\/wp\/?p=136"},"modified":"2004-10-01T13:22:49","modified_gmt":"2004-10-01T18:22:49","slug":"two-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200410\/two-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Two questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#1<br \/>\nTo all those who claim that the British &#8220;deindustrialised&#8221; India, and Nehru started us off on the right path.<br \/>\nDo you know when and <i>how<\/i> India&#8217;s textile industry developed?<\/p>\n<p>#2<br \/>\nYou all know that George Orwell was a dedicated opponent of communism and, especially Fascism. But he was also a dedicated socialist. He wrote a three-part essay calling for the socialist takeover of Britain. I won&#8217;t give you the name of the essay, because then you will be able to google and find it. <\/p>\n<p>In that essay, what did he give as &#8220;proof&#8221; that socialism would work better than capitalism?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#1 To all those who claim that the British &#8220;deindustrialised&#8221; India, and Nehru started us off on the right path. Do you know when and how India&#8217;s textile industry developed? #2 You all know that George Orwell was a dedicated opponent of communism and, especially Fascism. But he was also a dedicated socialist. He wrote [&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\/136"}],"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=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}