{"id":268,"date":"2005-03-21T12:19:22","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T06:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/03\/21\/narendra-modi-gandhi-ii\/"},"modified":"2005-03-21T12:19:22","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T06:49:22","slug":"narendra-modi-gandhi-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200503\/narendra-modi-gandhi-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Narendra Modi, Gandhi II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modi has compared his being denied a US visa to Gandhiji being <a href=\"http:\/\/newindpress.com\/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEH20050320231614&#038;Page=H&#038;Title=Top+Stories&#038;Topic=-386\">chucked out of the South African train<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>That reminds me of a shameful period in our history. <\/p>\n<p>I am referring to the blatant and absolutely uncalled for interference by Gandhiji into South Africa&#8217;s internal affairs. By what right did he, a foreigner,  ask South Africa, a sovereign and independent nation, to change its internal policies towards Indians and blacks? <\/p>\n<p>Besides, he was also guilty of hypocrisy. How could Indians possibly ask to be provided equal treatment with whites when they were openly discriminating against untouchables in their own country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modi has compared his being denied a US visa to Gandhiji being chucked out of the South African train. That reminds me of a shameful period in our history. I am referring to the blatant and absolutely uncalled for interference by Gandhiji into South Africa&#8217;s internal affairs. By what right did he, a foreigner, ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"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=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}