{"id":49013,"date":"2016-02-05T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T14:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=49013"},"modified":"2016-02-04T14:39:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T21:39:24","slug":"is-indias-new-intolerance-really-new-not-for-indias-oppressed-castes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2016\/02\/05\/is-indias-new-intolerance-really-new-not-for-indias-oppressed-castes\/","title":{"rendered":"Is India&#8217;s New Intolerance Really New? Not for India&#8217;s Oppressed Castes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601503.us.archive.org\/29\/items\/uprising_2016_02_05\/Thenmozhi_Soundararajan_2016_02_05.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601503.us.archive.org\/29\/items\/uprising_2016_02_05\/uprising_2016_02_05.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Thenmozhi Soundararajan<\/strong>, a Dalit-American filmmaker and Transmedia artist, co-founder of the international women\u2019s media technology collective, Third World Majority.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Well-known Indian author Arundhati Roy is facing a criminal trial for contempt of court in an ominous move that reflects an increasingly intolerant atmosphere in the world&#8217;s largest democracy. Roy, who is known for her strong progressive views critical of India&#8217;s government, could face prison time. <\/p>\n<p>Her trial is only the tip of the iceberg. Recently the high-profile suicide of a promising young PhD student named Rohith Vemula in the state of Hyderabad has led to a deep questioning of how free India&#8217;s academics and activists are. Vemula was a member of the historically oppressed Dalit castes and accused of having &#8220;anti-national&#8221; political sentiments.<\/p>\n<p>While Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not overtly implicated in these attacks on free speech, his party&#8217;s fingerprints are all over them. Modi&#8217;s critics warned in 2014 when he was elected, that the Hindu and upper caste supremacist party, the BJP, would enter India into a dangerous era. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jacuoh\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jacuoh\/<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Thenmozhi Soundararajan, a Dalit-American filmmaker and Transmedia artist, co-founder of the international women\u2019s media technology collective, Third World Majority. Well-known Indian author Arundhati Roy is facing a criminal trial for contempt of court in an ominous move that reflects an increasingly intolerant atmosphere in the world&#8217;s largest democracy. Roy, who is known for her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49015,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49013\/revisions\/49015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}