{"id":15148,"date":"2011-02-11T13:32:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T19:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15148"},"modified":"2011-02-11T13:32:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T19:32:14","slug":"niranjan-ramakrishnan-gandhi-on-the-nile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15148","title":{"rendered":"Niranjan Ramakrishnan: Gandhi On The Nile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Niranjan Ramakrishnan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>11 February, 2011<br \/>\n<strong>Countercurrents.org<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Simhasan Khali Karo, Janta aati hai&#8221;<br \/>\n(Vacate the throne, the people are coming)<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;Ramdhari Singh &#8216;Dinkar&#8217;, Hindi poet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>News has just come of Hosni Mubarak&#8217;s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>The people of Egypt have just raised a political monument that will  rank alongside their mightiest stone and mortar wonders of antiquity.  They have shown the world a model exercise of peaceful, determined, and  dignified people-power.<\/p>\n<p>Three hundred or more are said to have died in the struggle of the last eighteen days. All of them were protesters, not one a representative of the hated regime. They met assaults by horse and camel borne thugs with even more resolve, thousands more pouring into Tahrir Square in response.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/ramakrishnan110211.htm\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;Gandhi On The Nile&#8221; by Niranjan Ramakrishnan<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Niranjan Ramakrishnan 11 February, 2011 Countercurrents.org &#8220;Simhasan Khali Karo, Janta aati hai&#8221; (Vacate the throne, the people are coming) &#8211;Ramdhari Singh &#8216;Dinkar&#8217;, Hindi poet News has just come of Hosni Mubarak&#8217;s resignation. The people of Egypt have just raised &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15148\">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-15148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3Wk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15148","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=15148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15150,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15148\/revisions\/15150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}