{"id":433,"date":"2010-01-22T06:10:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T00:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2017-11-05T08:03:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T08:03:48","slug":"india-australia-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/433","title":{"rendered":"India Australia Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday I was lucky enough to get to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2010\/01\/14\/2792435.htm\">free concert<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrahman.com\/v2\/\">A.R.Rahman<\/a>, put on as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneyfestival.org.au\">Sydney Festival<\/a>.  For those of us who don&#8217;t recognise the name, Rahman wrote the soundtrack to Slumdog Millionaire.<\/p>\n<p>Although he&#8217;s been booked to perform for a long time, the recent tension between India and Australia over violence in Australian universities gave him more reason to come.  He says that the Indian media behaved irresponsibly by blaming a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/india-outraged-by-brutal-student-bashings-20090528-boxu.html\">stabbing last year<\/a> on racism when it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2010\/01\/14\/2792435.htm\">more likely to be drug related<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the attacks are race or drug related, it was great to be part of a huge, multicultural crowd watching the 40 performers singing and dancing for peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday I was lucky enough to get to the free concert by A.R.Rahman, put on as part of the Sydney Festival. For those of us who don&#8217;t recognise the name, Rahman wrote the soundtrack to Slumdog Millionaire. Although he&#8217;s been booked to perform for a long time, the recent tension between India and Australia&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/433\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India Australia Friendship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}