{"id":5171,"date":"2019-07-29T11:26:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T11:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/?p=5171"},"modified":"2019-07-29T11:26:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T11:26:35","slug":"celebration-of-diversity-spirit-of-india-pranab-mukherjee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/?p=5171","title":{"rendered":"Celebration of diversity spirit of India: Pranab Mukherjee"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"m-story-header__intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was speaking at the ceremony where the 6th Dr Paulos Mar Gregorios award 2019 was handed over to social activist and pioneer of the RTI movement Aruna Roy and her organisation Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pmg-award-2019-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5172\" src=\"http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pmg-award-2019-01-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"pmg-award-2019-01\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pmg-award-2019-01-300x173.jpg 300w, http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pmg-award-2019-01-70x40.jpg 70w, http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pmg-award-2019-01.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Former President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/about\/pranab-mukherjee\">Pranab Mukherjee<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday said \u201ca celebration of diversity is the spirit of India\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"o-story-content__related o-story-content__related--large\">\n<div class=\"m-gutter-tout\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">He was speaking at the ceremony where the 6th Dr Paulos Mar Gregorios award 2019 was handed over to social activist and pioneer of the RTI movement Aruna Roy and her organisation Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The award is given by the Sophia society, an organisation under the aegis of the Delhi Diocese of the Orthodox Church in India, also called the Malankara Orthodox Church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Speaking at the event, Mukherjee said that before the recent amendment, RTI was a quality piece of legislation born from the experience of Aruna Roy and her colleagues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cIndia is an ideal that is fulfilled by various diversities, it cannot be compartmentalised and straitjacketed,\u201d Mukherjee said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Delivering the keynote address, MP\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/about\/shashi-tharoor\/\">Shashi Tharoor<\/a>\u00a0said the notion of majority and minority is non-Indian. \u201cAny narrow definition of Indians is an insult to Indianness. Everyone is a minority in India. It\u2019s in the acceptance of our differences that make us truly Indian. Everything about India is plural,\u201d Tharoor said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Receiving the award, Aruna Roy said she was pained by the recent amendments to the RTI Act. \u201cParadise can be lost, we realised it a few days back,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/celebration-of-diversity-spirit-of-india-pranab-mukherjee-5859414\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was speaking at the ceremony where the 6th Dr Paulos Mar Gregorios award 2019 was handed over to social activist and pioneer of the RTI movement Aruna Roy and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paulose-mar-gregorious-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5173,"href":"http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions\/5173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulosmargregorios.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}