{"id":6847,"date":"2017-10-28T01:26:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T19:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=6847"},"modified":"2017-10-28T01:26:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T19:56:14","slug":"mere-symbols-of-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2017\/10\/28\/mere-symbols-of-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mere symbols of the nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dear Editor,<\/strong><br \/>\nIt is simply bizarre to notice how the patriots who do not care a bit when the human rights of innumerable Indians and God-resembling vulnerable children get religiously and mercilessly trampled under marauding feet of the vested interests, promptly get &#8220;insulted&#8221; if some of their fellow citizens do not merely stand up when national anthem gets played in theatres or the tricolour gets unfurled in the &#8220;wrong&#8221; way!<br \/>\nWhen an united fight against the menace of corruption-casteism-communalism&#8211;racism-hunger-malnutrition-illiteracy-child labour-bonded labour-human trafficking should have remained the urgent call of the hour so as to make a humanitarian nation; Indians are pathetically squandering its precious time, energy and resource to debate over &#8220;sanctity&#8221; of flags and anthems which are nothing but mere symbols of the nation!<br \/>\n<strong>Yours,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Kajal Chatterjee, <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Kolkata<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, It is simply bizarre to notice how the patriots who do not care a bit when the human rights of innumerable Indians and God-resembling vulnerable children get religiously and mercilessly trampled under marauding feet of the vested interests, promptly get &#8220;insulted&#8221; if some of their fellow citizens do not merely stand up when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}