{"id":828,"date":"2008-04-09T21:44:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T16:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=828"},"modified":"2008-04-09T21:44:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T16:44:10","slug":"passing-on-the-torch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2008\/04\/09\/passing-on-the-torch\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing on the Torch&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; doesn&#039;t seem as simple as it was in early days. There is something about non violent protest and the power of a mighty state brought to bear against these protesters that seems to have got people who don&#039;t even know where [tag]Tibet[\/tag] is, to have an opinion on [tag]the Olympics[\/tag], [tag]China[\/tag], [tag]human rights[\/tag] and everything else in between. Obviously the story hasn&#039;t gone off the front pages, wire services, blogs or discussion boards. Today 3 very different sets of headlines made me shake my head in amazement :<\/p>\n<p>a) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/convergence\/ndtv\/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080046378\"><strong>Bush May Boycott Elections <\/strong><\/a>&#8211; the man who killed a million or more in the Name of Democracy has decided that China in Tibet is a worse offender than him in Iraq. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>b) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/wp-admin\/China vows to take Olympic torch to Tibet\"><span>China vows to take Olympic torch to Tibet<\/span><\/a><span> &#8211;&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong> Bull in a China Shop methodology. 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