{"id":1441,"date":"2011-05-21T05:05:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T04:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanavati.eu\/weblog\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2011-05-21T05:05:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T04:05:25","slug":"mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/21\/mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I recently had the pleasure to sit in the Willingdon Club with relatives by a golf course on a balmy evening outdoors in the hot month of may in Mumbai. The club was built by the British and it is based on the clubs you find in London. I was told of an even more exclusive club in Mumbai which still only allowed Europeans to join even after Independence, for quite a while.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fact of clubs does not aggravate me, they can be places of stillness in busy cities, places of study with wonderful libraries and places of work with a high level of the same strata of society joining. But I do wonder at the exclusivity and hoops one has to go through to join these places and what benefit it imparts but a transient sense of belonging and having made it in society. For all their elegance of style I am minded that these places are repositories if immense backwardness in our thinking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the Willingdon only children of past members may join. I won&#8217;t be applying. Not because I don&#8217;t want to be a member of a club that would have me, but because I don&#8217;t think these places should exist as they do, for exclusivity is just a synonym for prejudice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the pleasure to sit in the Willingdon Club with relatives by a golf course on a balmy evening outdoors in the hot month of may in Mumbai. The club was built by the British and it is based on the clubs you find in London. I was told of an even more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[484,800],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-mumabi","tag-willingdon-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}