{"id":10851,"date":"2021-01-20T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3118543\/indian-state-gujarat-renames-dragon-fruit-spite-china-gets"},"modified":"2021-01-20T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:00:07","slug":"indian-state-of-gujarat-renames-dragon-fruit-to-spite-china-gets-roasted-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/indian-state-of-gujarat-renames-dragon-fruit-to-spite-china-gets-roasted-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian state of Gujarat renames dragon fruit to spite China, gets roasted online"},"content":{"rendered":"A decision by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s home state of Gujarat to rename dragon fruit because the word dragon is \u201cassociated with China\u201d has drawn derision on social media.Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Tuesday told local media that the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Gujarat had decided the fruit\u2019s name should be changed to kamalam, meaning lotus in Sanskrit, because it is shaped like the flower \u2013 the party symbol of the ruling BJP.\u201cThe name dragon fruit is not proper, and due\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3118543\/indian-state-gujarat-renames-dragon-fruit-spite-china-gets\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decision by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s home state of Gujarat to rename dragon fruit because the word dragon is \u201cassociated with China\u201d has drawn derision on social media.Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Tuesday told local media that the Bhar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1078,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10852,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10851\/revisions\/10852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}