{"id":7617,"date":"2024-05-20T00:06:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T18:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=7617"},"modified":"2024-05-20T00:06:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T18:36:41","slug":"divide-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/20\/divide-6\/","title":{"rendered":"divide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are a 70-plus-year-old independent nation now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our democracy is the biggest in the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet the current trend I am seeing ends up being the same during the election.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caste and religion are still playing central issues in elections.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discussion should have been on job creation, education, health, and food.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am reading Mark Tully&#8217;s books. He wrote them 30-40 years ago. I see the same India seems described by him then. What have we achieved with technology when it has become a weapon to spread propaganda and venoms?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How many more years will this continue?&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a 70-plus-year-old independent nation now.&nbsp; Our democracy is the biggest in the world.&nbsp; Yet the current trend I am seeing ends up being the same during the election.&nbsp; Caste and religion are still playing central issues in elections.&nbsp; The discussion should have been on job creation, education, health, and food.&nbsp;&nbsp; I am reading &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/20\/divide-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;divide&#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":[100,3],"tags":[418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617"}],"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=7617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7618,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions\/7618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}