{"id":12850,"date":"2010-06-23T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/truth-travails-2\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T18:00:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T12:30:41","slug":"truth-travails-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/truth-travails-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth Travails"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Vijay K Saluja<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nWhen newly constructed buildings were falling<br \/>\nand freshly laid surfaces were spalling <br \/>\nDifficult it was<br \/>\nto be a mute spectactor.<br \/>\nCounselled my conscience, Come out of your stupor and act!<\/p>\n<p>And act I did<br \/>\nby slipping the lid,<br \/>\noff the can <br \/>\nof the shady going-ons<br \/>\nof my peers<\/p>\n<p>Lo and behold<br \/>\nthere were reprisals galore<br \/>\nwith the full gang,<br \/>\nshouting \u201cEncore!\u201d<br \/>\nIntra-senior rivalries<br \/>\nwere forgotten by many, <br \/>\nall of them galvanised<br \/>\nto fight a common enemy.<br \/>\nNew weapons of treachery<br \/>\nwere assembled<br \/>\nAnd,the department resembled<br \/>\na battery of artillery<\/p>\n<p>Tons of falsehood were expended to <br \/>\ncrush an ounce of truth<br \/>\nBut truth, you know, is like the `phoenix`<br \/>\nwhich rises afresh from its ashes<br \/>\nand is not bound by sashes<\/p>\n<p>Though there is ammunition aplenty<br \/>\nBut, of one thing, I am sure<br \/>\nyes, very sure,<br \/>\non which others, could crib<br \/>\nthat all this would prove to be<br \/>\na damp-squib!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vijay K Saluja When newly constructed buildings were falling and freshly laid surfaces were spalling Difficult it was to be a mute spectactor. Counselled my conscience, Come out of your stupor and act! And act I did by slipping the lid, off the can of the shady going-ons of my peers Lo and behold there were reprisals galore with the full gang, shouting \u201cEncore!\u201d Intra-senior rivalries were forgotten by many, all of them galvanised to fight a common enemy. New weapons of treachery were assembled And,the department resembled a battery of artillery Tons of falsehood were expended to crush an <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,1],"tags":[42,65,1879],"class_list":["post-12850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-update","tag-education","tag-member-article","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50613,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850\/revisions\/50613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}