{"id":8935,"date":"2010-04-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/04\/03\/minister-calls-university-gowns-a-barbaric-colonial-practice\/"},"modified":"2010-04-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T12:00:00","slug":"minister-calls-university-gowns-a-barbaric-colonial-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/04\/03\/minister-calls-university-gowns-a-barbaric-colonial-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Calls University Gowns a &#8220;Barbaric Colonial Practice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/Christians-demand-apology-from-Jairam-Ramesh-over-barbaric-remark\/articleshow\/5759357.cms\">timesofindia.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BHUBANESWAR, ORISSA, INDIA, April 4, 2010: Union minister of state environment and forest Jairam Ramesh attraced criticism for opposing the wearing of the traditional ceremonial robes at university events.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The practice of wearing a traditional colored gown during a convocation ceremony at any university is a barbaric colonial practice. Why can&#8217;t we wear simple dress instead of these gowns,&#8221; Ramesh said at the seventh convocation ceremony of the Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) at Bhopal Friday. Ramesh had publicly removed his gown and added: &#8220;Why cannot we have convocation in simple dress instead of coming dressed up as medieval vicars and popes.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The Global Council of Indian Christians demanded an apology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com BHUBANESWAR, ORISSA, INDIA, April 4, 2010: Union minister of state environment and forest Jairam Ramesh attraced criticism for,&#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-8935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935","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=8935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}