{"id":2893,"date":"2007-12-06T11:02:29","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T05:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200712\/invitationhindutva-essay-contest\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T05:45:58","slug":"invitationhindutva-essay-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200712\/invitationhindutva-essay-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Invitation:Hindutva Essay Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Examined Life<\/em> is hosting an essay contest open only to self-described supporters of Hindutva<\/em>. Please write a thousand word essay on any of the following topics:<\/p>\n

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  1. In the India of my dreams,\u00a0 M F Hussain will be in jail and Taslima Nasreen will be granted Indian citizenship.<\/li>\n
  2. In the India of my dreams, both M F Hussain and Taslima Nasreen will be free to speak their minds.<\/li>\n
  3. In the India of my dreams, there will be no pseudo-secular people, no militant Islamists, no leftists and no children of Macaulay. So the question of what to do about M F Hussain and Taslima Nasreen will not arise, because there will be no one left to ask the question.<\/li>\n
  4. In the India of my dreams, there will be no pseudo-secular people, no militant Islamists, no leftists\u00a0and no children of Macaulay. As Hindutva is less of a philosophy and more of a debating tactic to point out the hypocrisy of everyone else in the world, Hindutva won’t exist either.<\/li>\n
  5. I cannot write an essay on topics 1 to 4, because the person who is setting the contest has not set a similar essay contest for pseudo-secular people, militant Islamists, leftists and for children of Macaulay. This means that there is no need for me to explain how Hindutva translates to public policy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you write the essay, please leave a trackback or a comment. Judges and prizes to be announced later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Examined Life is hosting an essay contest open only to self-described supporters of Hindutva. Please write a thousand word essay on any of the following topics: In the India of my dreams,\u00a0 M F Hussain will be in jail and Taslima Nasreen will be granted Indian citizenship. In the India of my dreams, both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893"}],"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=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}