{"id":41884,"date":"2015-01-03T16:40:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T11:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indiavision.com\/social-lifestyle\/news-videos\/the-big-fight-is-the-idea-of-india-changing\/41884\/"},"modified":"2015-01-03T16:40:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T11:10:12","slug":"the-big-fight-is-the-idea-of-india-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indiavision.com\/social-lifestyle\/news-videos\/the-big-fight-is-the-idea-of-india-changing\/41884\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Fight: Is the &#8216;Idea of India&#8217; changing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we begin the new year, we delve into a topic that is now increasingly occupying the centre stage of <!--more--> public discourse since the new government took over in New Delhi. Since our schooldays, we have often come across the term \u201cidea of India\u201d, never knowing fully well what it means or what it represents. Does it refer to our civilisational construct or to the broad Nehruvian consensus on which the founding fathers of our Constitution reposed their faith in the &#8216;Idea of India&#8217; as a nation state? Are some of those basic tenets of the &#8216;idea&#8217; \u2013 pluralism and diversity &#8211; under threat or are they being challenged by an idea of singular culture, homogeneity Watch the debate on The Big Fight.<\/p>\n<p>Watch full show: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/player\/the-big-fight\/the-big-fight-is-the-idea-of-india-changing\/350943?yt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/player\/the-big-fight\/the-big-fight-is-the-idea-of-india-changing\/350943?yt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we begin the new year, we delve into a topic that is now increasingly occupying the centre stage of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news-videos","7":"bn-entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Big Fight: Is the &#039;Idea of India&#039; changing? 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