{"id":440,"date":"2008-10-30T23:08:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T23:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=440"},"modified":"2008-10-30T23:08:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T23:08:29","slug":"the-politics-of-hatred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/the-politics-of-hatred\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Hatred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again the people of India, the ordinary citizen, has suffered the politics of hatred. Whether it be the 60 people killed in the awful bomb blasts in Gawhati, or the innocent people attacked and killed in the trains in Mumbai. How do the politicians who provoke such actions to further  their own selfish political ends sleep at night ? How can they look at their own families, their own children and not be consumed by the grief they have caused to so many other families ?  How do they sleep at night ?  I know that politicians did not cause the bombings, but in effect their actions or non actions led to them.  Indian politicians are fast becoming self obsessed, self serving demons, who feed on the flesh of their own people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again the people of India, the ordinary citizen, has suffered the politics of hatred. Whether it be the 60 people killed in the awful bomb blasts in Gawhati, or the innocent people attacked and killed in the trains in Mumbai. 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