{"id":6640,"date":"2014-09-14T03:38:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T03:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=6640"},"modified":"2014-09-22T19:12:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T19:12:27","slug":"2014-10-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-10-12\/","title":{"rendered":"A Contemporary Renaissance in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Lopa Mukherjee\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-10-12\/\">A Contemporary Renaissance in India<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Lopa Mukherjee\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-10-12\/\">Lopa Mukherjee<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Lopa Mukherjee\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-10-12\/\">Oct 12, 2014<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6641\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6641\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6641\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Lopa-Mukherjee-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Lopa Mukherjee\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Lopa-Mukherjee-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Lopa-Mukherjee-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Lopa-Mukherjee.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lopa Mukherjee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first Renaissance in India came from the urge to win freedom from colonial rule.<\/p>\n<p>After independence the euphoria of freedom quickly disappeared. The onerous task of rebuilding a nation loomed ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Very soon it was found that there were still more enemies to conquer. Not external enemies this time, but internal ones.<\/p>\n<p>The post-independence generation of Indian artists and intellectuals rose to meet the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Lopa Mukherjee is a writer and documentary film-maker, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lopamukherjee.com\">www.lopamukherjee.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Join us as we hear Lopa give this multimedia presentation of these renaissance people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Contemporary Renaissance in India Lopa Mukherjee Oct 12, 2014 &nbsp; The first Renaissance in India came from the urge to win freedom from colonial rule. After independence the euphoria of freedom quickly disappeared. The onerous task of rebuilding a nation loomed ahead. Very soon it was found that there were still more enemies to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-10-12\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Contemporary Renaissance in India&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[28,33,227,197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6640"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6707,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640\/revisions\/6707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}