{"id":13282,"date":"2014-01-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/01\/19\/us-returns-missing-sculptures-to-india\/"},"modified":"2014-01-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T12:00:00","slug":"us-returns-missing-sculptures-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/01\/19\/us-returns-missing-sculptures-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"US Returns Missing Sculptures to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-25740350\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM, January 15, 2014 (BBC): The US has returned to India three ancient sculptures that had been smuggled into the US by art dealers and accomplices. The 11th-12th Century sandstone sculptures had been stolen from temples in India and offered for sale in the US.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s consul general in New York, Dnyaneshwar Mulay, expressed gratitude to US.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d really like to express very heartfelt gratitude to US authorities for having invested so much time, energy and resources in obtaining, securing and now helping us repatriate these [statues] to the place where they belong,&#8221; Mr. Mulay was quoted as saying by The Hindu newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>James Dinkins, executive associate director of Homeland Security Investigations, said &#8220;excellent cooperation&#8221; between the two countries had &#8220;led to the recovery and return of these priceless antiquities&#8221;. &#8220;The pilfering of a nation&#8217;s cultural patrimony cannot and will not be tolerated,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source UNITED KINGDOM, January 15, 2014 (BBC): The US has returned to India three ancient sculptures that had been smuggled,&#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-13282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13282","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=13282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}