{"id":3781,"date":"2016-08-20T04:04:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T04:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=3781"},"modified":"2016-08-20T08:06:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T08:06:50","slug":"3781","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/3781\/","title":{"rendered":"TS &#038; AP claim for Sindhu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_default\">\u00a0Pusarla Venkata Sindhu pumped up the excitement <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2132909844\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Friday<\/span><\/span> at Rio and settled for Silver. Sindhus \u00a0admirers staked claim to her: both in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.The champion shuttler was their \u2018ammayi\u2019 \u00a0people from \u00a0both states said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<p>People from both sides are claiming that Sindhu belongs to them. Some asserted that she was born and brought up in Hyderabad and was a Telangana \u2018bidda.\u2019 The counter was that she belonged to Vijayawada and was therefore an Andhra \u2018ammayi\u2019. Many even researched the champion\u2019s caste, as her parents had a love marriage.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3773\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3773\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3773\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/RIOEC8J13WFJ0_1536x864-660x365.jpg\" alt=\"Sindhu gets silver\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elders played safe \u00a0calling her a Telugu \u2018Tejam.\u2019 Chiding all \u2018parochial\u2019 factions were the nationalists who said Sindhu was an Indian.The champion player\u2019s parents, Mr. Ramana and Ms. Vijayalakshmi, meanwhile, made a quick 350-km trip to Eluru from Hyderabad to offer prayers at Ratnalamma temple <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2132909845\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Friday<\/span><\/span>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3900\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/download-7.jpg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0In Hyderabad, the Gopi Chand Academy was full of fans keen to watch her battle Carolina Marin.Ms. Vijayalakshmi said her girl is an Indian first. \u201cLet us all enjoy this moment of triumph and look forward to a golden finish and not engage in a debate,\u201d she said, as the family settled down to watch the final on a giant screen, accompanied by guests like Daggubati Purandeshwari and London Olympics bronze medallist Gagan Narang.<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3901\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sindhu-bonalu-750x500-660x365.jpg\" alt=\"sindhu bonalu 750x500\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Sindhu was born in Secunderabad and lives in Marredpally. Her father is Sports Officer, South Central Railway.Images of the player carrying the traditional Bonam at the recent Bonalu festival in Hyderabad strengthened her Telangana supporters\u2019 claims. She should be the State\u2019s brand ambassador, replacing Sania Mirza, some said on social media.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3903\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sindhu-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sindhu (1)\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ramana was born in Nirmal, Adilabad district in Telangana, and Ms. Vijayalakshmi, a volleyball player like her husband, is the daughter of a Vijayawada businessman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Pusarla Venkata Sindhu pumped up the excitement on Friday at Rio and settled for Silver. Sindhus \u00a0admirers staked claim to her: both in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.The champion shuttler was their \u2018ammayi\u2019 \u00a0people from \u00a0both states said. People from both sides are claiming that Sindhu belongs to them. Some asserted that she was born and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,2],"tags":[495,1970,1969,49,1968,1971,32],"class_list":["post-3781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-gossips","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-ap","tag-gopi-chand","tag-gopi-chand-academy","tag-telangana","tag-ts-ap-claim-for-sindhu","tag-vijayalakshmi","tag-vijayawada"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781","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=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}