{"id":14818,"date":"2010-11-08T17:03:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T23:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14818"},"modified":"2010-11-08T17:03:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T23:03:37","slug":"scott-horton-churchill%e2%80%99s-dark-side-six-questions-for-madhusree-mukerjee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14818","title":{"rendered":"Scott Horton: Churchill\u2019s Dark Side: Six Questions for Madhusree Mukerjee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpers.org\/subjects\/ScottHorton\"> Scott Horton<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Madhusree Mukerjee, a former editor at<\/em> Scientific American <em>and  the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, has published a bombshell  book about Churchill\u2019s attitudes toward India and the steps that he took  during World War II that contributed to a horrific famine in Bengal in  1943. I put six questions to her about her book and some of the pushback  it has drawn from Churchill\u2019s defenders:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpers.org\/archive\/2010\/11\/hbc-90007797\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Scott Horton Madhusree Mukerjee, a former editor at Scientific American and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, has published a bombshell book about Churchill\u2019s attitudes toward India and the steps that he took during World War II that contributed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14818\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3R0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14819,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818\/revisions\/14819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}