{"id":457700,"date":"2026-01-08T12:55:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=457700"},"modified":"2026-01-08T12:55:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:55:56","slug":"opinion-blog-madhav-gadgil-the-durable-optimist-who-believed-science-too-has-obligations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=457700","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Blog | Madhav Gadgil: The &#8216;Durable Optimist&#8217; Who Believed Science, Too, Has Obligations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gadgil, despite decades of frustration and bureaucratic sidelining, believed that people could organise, that knowledge could travel, and that democracy, however delayed, could still correct its course.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bGadgil, despite decades of frustration and bureaucratic sidelining, believed that people could organise, that knowledge could travel, and that democracy, however delayed, could still correct its course.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gadgil, despite decades of frustration and bureaucratic sidelining, believed that people could organise, that knowledge could travel, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","morenews-large":"","morenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"aruntrisal786@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}