{"id":102236,"date":"2017-08-05T14:18:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T08:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=102236"},"modified":"2017-08-05T14:18:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T08:48:44","slug":"modi-for-dialogue-and-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/modi-for-dialogue-and-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi for dialogue and debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dialogue is the only way to cut through deep-rooted religious stereotypes and prejudices that divide communities across the world and sow seeds of conflict between nations and societies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs the inter-connected and inter-dependent world of 21st century battles a number of global challenges, from terrorism to climate change, I am confident that the solutions will be found through Asia\u2019s oldest traditions of dialogue and debate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-102238\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/pm-visits-lord-lingaraj-temple_a9e595c8-22d9-11e7-beb7-f1cbdf0743d8.jpg\" alt=\"Modi for dialogue and debate\" width=\"960\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/pm-visits-lord-lingaraj-temple_a9e595c8-22d9-11e7-beb7-f1cbdf0743d8.jpg 960w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/pm-visits-lord-lingaraj-temple_a9e595c8-22d9-11e7-beb7-f1cbdf0743d8-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Modi said he is a \u201cproduct of the ancient Indian tradition that firmly believes in dialogue on difficult issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He stated this in a video message to the 2nd edition of \u2018Samvad- Global Initiative on Conflict Avoidance and Environment Consciousness\u2019 being held in Yangon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister said the ancient Indian concept of \u201cTarka Shastra\u201d (debate) is founded on dialogue and debate as the model for exchange of views and avoidance of conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dialogue is the only way to cut through deep-rooted religious stereotypes and prejudices that divide communities across the world and sow seeds of conflict between nations and societies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday. \u201cAs the inter-connected and inter-dependent world of 21st century battles a number of global challenges, from terrorism to climate change, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[4752,51342,15365,25373,51344,94,51345,11141,51341,51340,51343],"class_list":["post-102236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-asia","tag-conflict-avoidance","tag-debate","tag-environment","tag-indian-tradition","tag-narendra-modi","tag-nations-and-societies","tag-prime-minister","tag-samvad-global-initiative","tag-traditions-of-dialogue","tag-yangon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/narendra-modi-7593.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}