{"id":3014,"date":"2008-05-21T11:05:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T05:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200805\/rajiv-gandhi-and-hindustani-classical-music\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T11:05:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T05:35:13","slug":"rajiv-gandhi-and-hindustani-classical-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200805\/rajiv-gandhi-and-hindustani-classical-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajiv Gandhi and Hindustani Classical Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi&#8217;s death, an event I would have blissfully ignored if the cable had not gone out in the morning and we had to switch to Doordarshan for a brief period. Entirely coincidentally, today I decided to change the CD in my car&#8217;s music system that was playing the same set of Kishore Kumar songs again and again. I felt like having some Hindustani vocal. That naturally brings up the question: How much damage did the government do to Indian classical music by switching to it during periods of &#8220;national mouring&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi&#8217;s death, an event I would have blissfully ignored if the cable had not gone out in the morning and we had to switch to Doordarshan for a brief period. Entirely coincidentally, today I decided to change the CD in my car&#8217;s music system that was playing the same [&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":[152,153,154,155,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014"}],"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=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}