{"id":695136,"date":"2010-03-18T18:34:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T22:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/?p=129256"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:33:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:33:53","slug":"india-masters-not-representatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/695136","title":{"rendered":"India: Masters, Not Representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Amit Verma<\/em> at <em>India Uncut<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.com\/iublog\/article\/a-garland-for-the-queen\/\">comments on<\/a> the news that garlands of thousand-rupee notes were presented to a political leader in India: &#8220;this kind of behaviour demonstrates, yet again, how our politicians believe that they are our rulers, and not our servants.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amit Verma at India Uncut comments on the news that garlands of thousand-rupee notes were presented to a political leader in India: &#8220;this kind of behaviour demonstrates, yet again, how our politicians believe that they are our rulers, and not our servants.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2UPS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796606,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695136\/revisions\/796606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}