{"id":379,"date":"2013-10-14T10:22:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T09:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=379"},"modified":"2013-10-14T10:22:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T09:22:29","slug":"one-state-many-worlds-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"One state, many worlds, now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"378\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-jf6pwtPqCs\" width=\"505\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">THE music video \u201cEk Sur\u201d, more popularly known as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-jf6pwtPqCs\">Mile Sur Mera Tumhara<\/a>\u201d, was released on India\u2019s Independence Day in 1988. It was a small contribution to the country\u2019s herculean post-independence task of building a unified national identity. The song\u2019s lyrics were written in all 14 languages recognised by the constitution at the time. (The number has since increased to 22.) Playing off India\u2019s many cultures, the performers sing: \u201cWhen your song and my song meet, they become our song.\u201d In typical Indian fashion, the video is both kitschy and irresistible. It has since attained legendary status, eclipsing even a hi-fi, star-studded 2010 remake.&nbsp;\u201cEk Sur\u201d represents one piece of the ongoing effort to define who and what is \u201cIndian\u201d, one of modern India\u2019s most pressing challenges.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On a smaller scale, the southwestern state of Karnataka struggles with some of the same issues. Karnataka was created in 1956 from adjoining, mostly Kannada-speaking districts in four different states. The three other southern Indian states were created using language-based distinctions around the same time. The reorganisations were meant to strengthen&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21580007?fsrc=rss\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>via Johnson http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21580007?fsrc=rss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; THE music video \u201cEk Sur\u201d, more popularly known as \u201cMile Sur Mera Tumhara\u201d, was released on India\u2019s Independence Day in 1988. It was a small contribution to the country\u2019s herculean post-independence task of building a unified national identity. The song\u2019s lyrics were written in all 14 languages recognised by the constitution at the time. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[75],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}