{"id":267,"date":"2007-02-03T22:37:17","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T17:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2007\/02\/03\/lobby-the-jurors-now\/"},"modified":"2007-02-03T22:37:17","modified_gmt":"2007-02-03T17:07:17","slug":"lobby-the-jurors-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/03\/lobby-the-jurors-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobby The Jurors Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve nominated <a href=\"http:\/\/popagandhi.com\">Popagandhi<\/a> for Indiblog of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Indiblog of the Year is hardly a huge honour for someone who&#8217;s nominated for Best <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Asian<\/span> Blog at the Bloggies. Yes, she is Chinese by ethnicity and Singaporean by nationality. And she does not live in India. On the other hand, she&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/popagandhi.com\/439\/whose-country-is-it-anyway\/\">more Indian than most Indians<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/popagandhi.com\/450\/7-stories-to-tell\/\">writes better about traveling in India<\/a> than most Indians I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n<p>If she is not nominated to the final list, I will take it as proof of the disgusting racist and homophobic mentality of the jurors. And their hypocrisy too. After all they are the ones who complain on their blogs about <a href=\"http:\/\/retributions.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/21\/shilpa-shetty-racism-and-the-rising-india\/\">Indians being racist<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theotherindia.org\/caste\/the-india-we-want-to-build.html\">hostile to representation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is in <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">your<\/span> power to prevent this happening. Lobby the jurors and <span style=\"font-style: italic\">demand<\/span> that they vote for Popagandhi. Mail Confused and Shivam and ask them if they are ready to put their ballot where their blogposts are. Threaten to burn Patrix&#8217;s effigy if he does not push Popagandhi up the lists. Or if you want to go Gandhigiri style and send Neha roses, you can do that too. The important point is that Popagandhi wins.<\/p>\n<p>For great justice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve nominated Popagandhi for Indiblog of the Year. Yes, Indiblog of the Year is hardly a huge honour for someone who&#8217;s nominated for Best Asian Blog at the Bloggies. Yes, she is Chinese by ethnicity and Singaporean by nationality. And she does not live in India. On the other hand, she&#8217;s more Indian than most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging","category-humour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-4j","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}