{"id":3889,"date":"2019-09-15T10:17:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T04:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2019-09-15T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T04:47:02","slug":"ascetic-games-sadhus-akharas-and-the-making-of-the-hindu-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/15\/ascetic-games-sadhus-akharas-and-the-making-of-the-hindu-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Ascetic Games: Sadhus, Akharas and the Making of the Hindu Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Finished reading &#8220;Ascetic Games: Sadhus, Akharas and the Making of the Hindu Vote&#8221;. I am not sure what the author was trying to conclude via the book.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>It is a well-known fact that whether its a king or a priest everyone craves for power.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Every organization has its role in politics, the Vatican was not alone.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Politics and ideology are part and parcel for vote bank. What congress did with Chandraswami, BJP is doing with RSS\/VHP.<\/li><li>The Akharas are safe heavens for all anti-social elements like other religious centers. Weren&#8217;t terrorists were inside the golden temple.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>It is very easy for us to read one book and form an opinion or belief. Smart authors win by peddling their ideology. As a reader, we have to be very open-minded and take everything propagated rationally.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finished reading &#8220;Ascetic Games: Sadhus, Akharas and the Making of the Hindu Vote&#8221;. I am not sure what the author was trying to conclude via the book.&nbsp; It is a well-known fact that whether its a king or a priest everyone craves for power.&nbsp; Every organization has its role in politics, the Vatican was not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/15\/ascetic-games-sadhus-akharas-and-the-making-of-the-hindu-vote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ascetic Games: Sadhus, Akharas and the Making of the Hindu Vote&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[719],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3890,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions\/3890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}