{"id":305983,"date":"2018-11-23T05:14:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T05:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305983"},"modified":"2018-11-23T05:14:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T05:14:19","slug":"president-kovind-pm-modi-pay-tribute-to-guru-nanak-dev-on-his-birth-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-kovind-pm-modi-pay-tribute-to-guru-nanak-dev-on-his-birth-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kovind, PM Modi pay tribute to Guru Nanak Dev on his birth anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305552 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi-696x461.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi-634x420.jpg 634w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday paid tribute to Guru Nanak Dev on the occasion of his birth anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Kovind said that the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev inspire everyone to follow the path of peace, compassion and service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cGurpurab greetings to all fellow citizens, especially to our Sikh brothers and sisters in India and abroad. The life and teachings of Guru Nanak Dev inspire us to follow the path of peace, compassion and service,\u201d Kovind tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Recalling his inspiring thoughts, Prime Minister Modi said that Guru Nanak was committed towards eradicating injustice and inequality from society and believed in the power of education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Shri Guru Nanak Devji taught us the path of truth, righteousness and compassion. He was committed towards eradicating injustice and inequality from society,&#8221; Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;He also believed in the power of education. We bow to him on his &#8216;jayanti&#8217; (birth anniversary) and recall his inspiring thoughts,&#8221; Modi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Guru Nanak Dev was born in November 1469, he was the founder of\u00a0Sikhism\u00a0and the first of the ten\u00a0Sikh Gurus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday paid tribute to Guru Nanak Dev on the occasion of his birth anniversary. President Kovind said that the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev inspire everyone to follow the path of peace, compassion and service. \u201cGurpurab greetings to all fellow citizens, especially to our Sikh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9818,407,1277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305985,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305983\/revisions\/305985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}