{"id":10244,"date":"2011-06-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/06\/29\/quarrying-ruins-hampi-temples\/"},"modified":"2011-06-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T12:00:00","slug":"quarrying-ruins-hampi-temples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/06\/29\/quarrying-ruins-hampi-temples\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarrying Ruins Hampi Temples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.punemirror.in\/article\/4\/201106162011061606220785820904cda\/Quarrying-\u201a\u00c4\u00f2ruins\u201a\u00c4\u00f4-Hampi-temples.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HAMPI, INDIA, June 16, 2011 (The Pune Mirror): Some of the most impressive structures at the world heritage site at Hampi are in various stages of collapse following unchecked quarrying of granite in the vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, a portion of the famous Varaha temple came crashing down. Regular dynamiting of rocks in the periphery of the Vijayanagar ruins had seriously weakened the structure, and it just took a heavy downpour to do the rest.<\/p>\n<p>The Archaeological Survey of India was conducting restoration work at the Varaha temple complex when the temple wall crumbled. &#8220;Granite quarrying is rampant in Bukkasagara, Venkatapura and Gudalkere villages which are situated very near to these monuments.<\/p>\n<p>In May, when the famous Akka Thangi (Sister Stone) collapsed, tourism minister G. Janardhana Reddy visited the site and stated that &#8220;quarrying in a six-kilometer radius of Hampi will be banned.&#8221; But no action has been taken so far by tourism department officials and the district administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source HAMPI, INDIA, June 16, 2011 (The Pune Mirror): Some of the most impressive structures at the world heritage site,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}