{"id":154378,"date":"2010-01-08T11:23:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1040883"},"modified":"2010-01-08T11:23:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T16:23:32","slug":"pongal-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/154378","title":{"rendered":"Pongal issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Pongal is around the corner and there is huge socio-political contraversy about the festival. This thread is to discuss the history, origins, sociological implications etc of the issue. Is Pongal really a Tamil specific festival ? Is it really &#8216;new year&#8217; or is a mass propoganda campaign of the tamil nationalist lobby to promote it as a &#8216;nationalist&#8217; festival based on linguistic lines. Traditionally is it a Hindu\/Bhuddist festival celebrated with variations in Sri Lanka and other parts of India, Nepal, Thailand etc Any views,new discussions etc. Is this a festival that is popular with Christians, Muslims etc if at all it is to be seen as a &#8216;Tamil festival&#8217; rather than a religious festival.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to open up some amount of discussion in this section rather than the usual rhetorics of exchanging plesantries and &#8216;gifts&#8217; for festivals and thinking all is well but more about opening up a dialogue between communities which requires a bit of introspection. However even though this is an explorative thread about history etc it doesnt mean there are no limits. <\/p>\n<p>So please bear in mind this issue might be of interest to people beyond national borders and hence I would stress caution and wont tolerate meaningless insensitivity or discussing present day politics etc.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pongal is around the corner and there is huge socio-political contraversy about the festival. This thread is to discuss the history, origins, sociological implications etc of the issue. Is Pongal really a Tamil specific festival ? Is it really &#8216;new year&#8217; or is a mass propoganda campaign of the tamil nationalist lobby to promote it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1067,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1067"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}