{"id":321960,"date":"2020-04-08T05:51:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T05:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321960"},"modified":"2020-04-08T05:51:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T05:51:39","slug":"pm-modi-condoles-death-of-indian-american-journalist-brahm-kanchibotla-who-died-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-condoles-death-of-indian-american-journalist-brahm-kanchibotla-who-died-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi condoles death of Indian-American journalist Brahm Kanchibotla who died of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-320074 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/modi-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/modi-2.jpg 588w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/modi-2-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/modi-2-498x420.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday expressed grief over the demise of veteran Indian American journalist Brahm Kanchibotla who passed away of coronavirus, saying he will be remembered for his fine work and efforts to bring India and USA closer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDeeply anguished by the passing away of Indian-American journalist Mr. Brahm Kanchibotla. He will be remembered for his fine work and efforts to bring India and USA closer. Condolences to his family and friends. Om Shanti,\u201d PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Veteran Indian American journalist Brahm Kanchibhotla, who was a former contributor to the United\u00a0News\u00a0of India\u00a0news\u00a0agency, passed away of COVID-19 at a New York hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Numerous Indian Americans have tested positive with COVID-19 in the US and several of them, including a former journalist, have died.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday expressed grief over the demise of veteran Indian American journalist Brahm Kanchibotla who passed away of coronavirus, saying he will be remembered for his fine work and efforts to bring India and USA closer. \u201cDeeply anguished by the passing away of Indian-American journalist Mr. Brahm Kanchibotla. He will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12862,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321960"}],"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=321960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321961,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321960\/revisions\/321961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}