{"id":220809,"date":"2025-06-28T08:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T08:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220809\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T08:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T08:01:14","slug":"indian-journalist-living-in-ni-i-interviewed-kashmir-militants-and-wasnt-afraid-but-i-wouldnt-get-out-of-car-in-ballymena-during-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220809\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian journalist living in NI: \u2018I interviewed Kashmir militants and wasn\u2019t afraid, but I wouldn\u2019t get out of car in Ballymena during riots\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Vasundhara Sirnate, who has lived in NI since 2017, reflects on years of experiencing racism in her adopted community, and explains why recent anti-immigrant violence felt tragically inevitable\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Firefighters battle a house that was set on fire in the Clonavon area of Ballymena on June 9 (Photo by Kevin Scott)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/4c8ff2c6-4b17-40be-8cb2-e7e8da32b0b2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Firefighters battle a house that was set on fire in the Clonavon area of Ballymena on June 9 (Photo by Kevin Scott)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On Sunday, June 15, I asked my husband to drive me through the streets that witnessed rioting in Ballymena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The violence in the town occurred two miles from where we live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vasundhara Sirnate, who has lived in NI since 2017, reflects on years of experiencing racism in her adopted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1211,1144,1610,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-220809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-antrim-news","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114759944413864172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}