{"id":474,"date":"2021-10-22T18:42:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T18:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.presha.net\/shan\/?p=474"},"modified":"2021-10-22T18:42:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T18:42:42","slug":"bhagat-singh-would-have-been-jailed-as-an-urban-naxal-by-the-modi-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.presha.net\/shan\/2021\/10\/22\/bhagat-singh-would-have-been-jailed-as-an-urban-naxal-by-the-modi-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhagat Singh would have been jailed as an \u2018Urban Naxal\u2019 by the Modi Government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bhagat Singh in a letter to his mother wrote, \u201c<em>I have no doubt that my country will be one day free. But I am afraid that brown sahibs are going to sit in the chairs the white sahibs will vacate<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was what the present ruling dispensation would call an \u2018Urban Naxal\u2019; a university student and a left intellectual- activist; he despised communalism, upheld secularism and critiqued religion; he talked about overthrowing Capitalism, Feudalism and Imperialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If he were alive, the Hindutva bandwagon would have hounded him. He would have been called part of a \u2018Tukde-Tukde\u2019 gang, an \u2018anti-national\u2019, a \u2018pseudo-secular\u2019, an \u2018urban Naxal\u2019, anti-Hindu etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhagat Singh in a letter to his mother wrote, \u201cI have no doubt that my country will be one day free. But I am afraid that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.presha.net\/shan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.presha.net\/shan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.presha.net\/shan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.presha.net\/shan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.presha.net\/shan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.presha.net\/shan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.presha.net\/shan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.presha.net\/shan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.presha.net\/shan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}