{"id":73109,"date":"2013-02-09T23:13:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T23:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=73109"},"modified":"2013-02-13T02:39:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T02:39:57","slug":"a-perfect-day-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-perfect-day-for-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Perfect Day For Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=ARUNDHATI+ROY&amp;x=5&amp;y=5\">Arundhati Roy<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_73110\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-perfect-day-for-democracy\/arundhati-roy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73110\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73110\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-73110\" title=\"Arundhati Roy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Arundhati-Roy-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Arundhati-Roy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Arundhati-Roy-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-73110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arundhati Roy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wasn\u2019t it? Yesterday I mean. Spring announced itself in Delhi. The sun was out, and the Law took its Course. Just before breakfast, Afzal Guru, prime accused in the 2001 Parliament Attack was secretly hanged, and his body was interred in Tihar Jail. Was he buried next to Maqbool Butt? (The other Kashmiri who was hanged in Tihar in 1984. Kashmiris will mark that anniversary tomorrow.) Afzal\u2019s wife and son were not informed. \u201cThe Authorities intimated the family through Speed Post and Registered Post,\u201d the Home Secretary told the press, \u201cthe Director General of J&amp;K Police has been told to check whether they got it or not.\u201d No big deal, they\u2019re only the family of a Kashmiri terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/lead\/a-perfect-day-for-democracy\/article4397705.ece\">Hindu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":73110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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