{"id":309676,"date":"2019-02-21T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309676"},"modified":"2019-02-21T11:00:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T11:00:22","slug":"pm-modi-unveils-bust-of-mahatma-gandhi-at-yonsei-university-in-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-unveils-bust-of-mahatma-gandhi-at-yonsei-university-in-seoul\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi unveils bust of Mahatma Gandhi at Yonsei University in Seoul"},"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-309677 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pm-modi-2-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/pm-modi-2-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/pm-modi-2-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/pm-modi-2-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/pm-modi-2-696x481.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/pm-modi-2-608x420.jpg 608w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/pm-modi-2.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday unveiled a bust of Mahatma Gandhi at Yonsei University in Seoul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The President of the Republic of Korea, Moon Jae-in, First Lady of the Republic of Korea, Kim Jung-sook, and former Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, were present on the occasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Speaking on the occasion, PM Modi described it as an honour to unveil the bust of Bapu at Yonsei University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis becomes even more special because we are doing so at a time when we mark the 150th birth anniversary of Bapu,&#8221; PM Modi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The thoughts and ideals of Bapu have the power to help us overcome the menace of terrorism and climate change, two challenges humanity faces in these times, said Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Through his lifestyle, Bapu showed what living in harmony with nature is and how one can minimize one&#8217;s carbon footprint. He also showed that it is important to leave a clean and green planet for the future generations, PM 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;\">Yonsei University is among the most prestigious universities in South Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mahatma Gandhi is revered in South Korea as an icon of world peace.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday unveiled a bust of Mahatma Gandhi at Yonsei University in Seoul. The President of the Republic of Korea, Moon Jae-in, First Lady of the Republic of Korea, Kim Jung-sook, and former Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, were present on the occasion. Speaking on the occasion, PM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2746,316,10913,10912],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309676"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309678,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309676\/revisions\/309678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}