{"id":38983,"date":"2019-04-14T10:22:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T10:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38983"},"modified":"2019-04-14T10:22:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T10:22:29","slug":"how-a-political-board-game-is-revealing-indians-true-feelings-about-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38983","title":{"rendered":"How a political board game is revealing Indians&#8217; true feelings about the election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New Delhi  (CNN)<\/cite>Staging a mass rally. Spreading fake news. Fueling caste tensions. Playing the religion card.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">These are among the more unsavory tactics that have allegedly been used by some Indian political parties as they scramble for votes during election season.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Now, with the country of 1.3 billion people embarking once again on the world&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/15\/asia\/india-election-what-to-know-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">biggest democratic exercise<\/a>, a new board game is simulating something of that campaign process &#8212; offering players<strong> <\/strong>both the standard and the sleazier electoral strategies.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi (CNN)Staging a mass rally. Spreading fake news. Fueling caste tensions. Playing the religion card.These are among the more unsavory tactics that have allegedly been used by some Indian political parties as they scramble for votes during election season.Now, with the country of 1.3 billion people embarking once again on the world&#8217;s biggest democratic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}