{"id":174,"date":"2004-01-06T11:30:19","date_gmt":"2004-01-06T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/01\/06\/communalism-and-the-media\/"},"modified":"2004-01-06T11:30:19","modified_gmt":"2004-01-06T15:30:19","slug":"communalism-and-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/01\/06\/communalism-and-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Communalism and the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a51'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">At an event celebrating the 125th anniversary of the paper, The Hindu reported <A href=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/2004\/01\/06\/stories\/2004010606461100.htm\">today<\/A> on the speech made by K.N. Panikkar on increasing communalism in the media.&nbsp; Panikkar warned of the increasing acceptance and perceived respectability of communalism, as well as its impact on the rhetoric of nationalism:<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Dr. Panikkar said that communalism had gained legitimacy, often through crude and false representations, as a result of which the popular common sense about key concepts such as nationalism and secularism were changing.<\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/2004\/01\/06\/stories\/2004010608510100.htm\">Other speakers<\/A> at the event praised the Hindu for its balanced reporting and avoidance of sensationalism, and discussed the Hindu&#x2019;s origins as a nationalist paper, among other topics.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At an event celebrating the 125th anniversary of the paper, The Hindu reported today on the speech made by K.N. Panikkar on increasing communalism in the media.&nbsp; Panikkar warned of the increasing acceptance and perceived respectability of communalism, as well as its impact on the rhetoric of nationalism: Dr. Panikkar said that communalism had gained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}