{"id":1663,"date":"2002-02-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/02\/17\/2002-02-17-tushar-gandhi-call-off-deal-on-great-grandfather-s-name\/"},"modified":"2002-02-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-17T12:00:00","slug":"2002-02-17-tushar-gandhi-call-off-deal-on-great-grandfather-s-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/02\/17\/2002-02-17-tushar-gandhi-call-off-deal-on-great-grandfather-s-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Tushar Gandhi Call Off Deal on Great Grandfather&#8217;s Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.timesofindia.com\/Articleshow.asp?art_id=498924\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>MUMBAI, INDIA, February 9, 2002: In December of 2001, Tushar Gandhi, a great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, was approached by an American company who wanted permission to use images of Gandhi to sell to one of their clients, a credit card company. According to Tushar he told the Indianapolis-based company, &#8220;I have no copyright over Bapuji. But they said they merely needed a no-objection certificate from me as one of his heirs.&#8221;  When news of the deal reached Mahatma&#8217;s devotees the result was explosive. After receiving endless furious phone calls and negative publicity, Tushar Gandhi has called off the deal with the company.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE MUMBAI, INDIA, February 9, 2002: In December of 2001, Tushar Gandhi, a great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, was,&#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-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","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=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}