{"id":6661,"date":"2008-03-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/03\/08\/many-interests-involved-in-chidambaram-conflict\/"},"modified":"2008-03-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T12:00:00","slug":"many-interests-involved-in-chidambaram-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/03\/08\/many-interests-involved-in-chidambaram-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Interests Involved in Chidambaram Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.chennaionline.com\/colnews\/newsitem.asp?NEWSID=%7BDE134A14-BCE8-4E66-B3B5-2B5B83DEED16%7D&#038;CATEGORYNAME=CHN\">www.chennaionline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">CHIDAMBARAM, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, March 6, 2008: Volunteers of the Human Rights Protection Centre (HRPC), Farmers Liberation Front and Makkal Kalai Ilakkiyam took out a procession and garlanded the statue of rationalist leader Periyar E.V. Ramasamy after bursting crackers to celebrate what they called &#8220;victory of Tamil&#8221;. (HPI Note: P. Ramasamy was a prominent social activist and atheist. His article on Wikipedia, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Periyar_E._V._Ramasamy\">here<\/a>, lists his famous statement: &#8220;He who created god was a fool, he who spreads his name is a scoundrel, and he who worships him is a barbarian.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>As reported by The Statesman <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thestatesman.net\/page.news.php?clid=2&#038;theme=&#038;usrsess=1&#038;id=193792\">here<\/a>, Tamil nationalist leader Mr P. Nedumaran demanded that the Hindu religious and charitable endowments department take over the temple administration. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.chennaionline.com CHIDAMBARAM, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, March 6, 2008: Volunteers of the Human Rights Protection Centre (HRPC), Farmers Liberation Front and,&#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-6661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661","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=6661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}