{"id":1371,"date":"2005-04-17T02:36:58","date_gmt":"2005-04-17T07:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1371"},"modified":"2005-04-18T00:21:14","modified_gmt":"2005-04-18T05:21:14","slug":"manipurs_bamiya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/17\/manipurs_bamiya\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipur&#8217;s Bamiyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fundamentalists claiming to preserve their cultures are often the ones responsible <A href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/4443565.stm\">for torching them<\/A>: \n<BLOCKQUOTE>Protesters demanding the introduction of <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manipur\">Manipur&#8217;s<\/A> ancient Mayek script set fire to the Central Library in Manipur&#8217;s capital Imphal on Wednesday. Officials say many of Manipur&#8217;s most ancient texts were among the books destroyed by the fire&#8230; Analysts say&#8230; the library was burnt because almost all Manipuri books preserved in it were written in Bengali script.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n<P>The Cauvery riots, the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000744.html\">Karnataka cinema shakedowns<\/A> &#8212; language stirs intense passions in India. But wishing that history were different doesn&#8217;t make it so. I could close my eyes and wish away the British Raj. Open them, and there lies Victoria Terminus still.<\/P>\n<P>Previous post <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000744.html\">here<\/A>.<\/P><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fundamentalists claiming to preserve their cultures are often the ones responsible for torching them: Protesters demanding the introduction of Manipur&#8217;s ancient Mayek script set fire to the Central Library in Manipur&#8217;s capital Imphal on Wednesday. Officials say many of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/17\/manipurs_bamiya\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}