{"id":13380,"date":"2014-03-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/03\/11\/is-hindu-dharma-good-and-hindutva-bad\/"},"modified":"2014-03-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T12:00:00","slug":"is-hindu-dharma-good-and-hindutva-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/03\/11\/is-hindu-dharma-good-and-hindutva-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Hindu Dharma Good And Hindutva Bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mariawirthblog.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/25\/is-hindu-dharma-good-and-hindutva-bad\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S., February 25, 2014 (Maria Wirth Blog): Is Hindutva really different from Hindu Dharma and dangerous? Or have those, which coined the term, an interest in making it look like that? No doubt, Hindutva has a bad name in the eyes of many, in spite of the ruling of the Supreme Court in 1995: &#8220;Hindutva is indicative more of the way of life of the Indian people. &#8230;Considering Hindutva as hostile, inimical, or intolerant of other faiths, or as communal proceeds from an improper appreciation of its true meaning.&#8221; I would like to explain from a personal angle, why I came to the conclusion that it is indeed &#8216;an improper appreciation of its true meaning,&#8217; when Hindutva is branded as communal and dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>For the full discussion, see &#8216;source&#8217; above.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source U.S., February 25, 2014 (Maria Wirth Blog): Is Hindutva really different from Hindu Dharma and dangerous? Or have those,,&#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-13380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380","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=13380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}