{"id":2781,"date":"2003-01-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/01\/15\/2003-01-15-indian-citizenship-for-it-s-diaspora-population-another-viewpoint\/"},"modified":"2003-01-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-15T12:00:00","slug":"2003-01-15-indian-citizenship-for-it-s-diaspora-population-another-viewpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/01\/15\/2003-01-15-indian-citizenship-for-it-s-diaspora-population-another-viewpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Citizenship for It&#8217;s Diaspora Population &#8212; Another Viewpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"mailto:Thavashan.Govender@sbs.siemens.co.za\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>SOUTH AFRICA, January 15, 2003: HPI ran a story where views from one South African Indian Hindu were quoted opposing Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee&#8217;s recent proposal for dual citizenship for India&#8217;s diaspora. Thavashan Govender&#8217;s response to this story follows: &#8220;I myself am a South African of Indian origin and a Hindu as well. I am proud of my cultural and religious background. To be once again a citizen of the motherland would be the ultimate honor! India should not regard Mewa Ramgobin and Fatima Meer as representing the opinions of Indo- South Africans. Many of us would certainly love having dual-citizenship and would consider it an honor.&#8221; Readers may contact &#8220;source&#8221; above for further discussion.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE SOUTH AFRICA, January 15, 2003: HPI ran a story where views from one South African Indian Hindu,&#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-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","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=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}