{"id":14841,"date":"2010-11-17T12:35:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T18:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14841"},"modified":"2010-11-17T12:35:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T18:35:34","slug":"pranav-jani-india-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14841","title":{"rendered":"Pranav Jani: India for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pranav Jani writes from New Delhi on the meaning of Barack Obama&#8217;s visit to India.<\/p>\n<p>November 16, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WITHIN THE span of a few days in India, Barack Obama accomplished two important objectives for the U.S. ruling class: (1) opening up India even further as a market for U.S. exports, from airplanes to turbines to motorcycles, and (2) securing the diplomatic and military ties with India to make it a stronger ally for defending U.S. might, especially in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>In successfully pulling off this agenda, Obama was aided and abetted by Indian elites themselves, as capitalists and politicians fell over themselves to sell Indian sovereignty at a good price.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/socialistworker.org\/2010\/11\/16\/india-for-sale\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pranav Jani writes from New Delhi on the meaning of Barack Obama&#8217;s visit to India. November 16, 2010 WITHIN THE span of a few days in India, Barack Obama accomplished two important objectives for the U.S. ruling class: (1) opening &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14841\">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-14841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3Rn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14841","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=14841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14842,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14841\/revisions\/14842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}