{"id":2957,"date":"2018-04-19T04:17:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T04:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=2957"},"modified":"2018-04-19T04:17:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T04:17:03","slug":"tamil-nadu-governor-banwarilal-purohit-apologises-to-journalist-lakshmi-subramanian-of-the-week-for-patting-her-cheek-at-a-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/tamil-nadu-governor-banwarilal-purohit-apologises-to-journalist-lakshmi-subramanian-of-the-week-for-patting-her-cheek-at-a-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit apologises to journalist Lakshmi Subramanian of \u201cThe Week\u201d for patting Her Cheek at a Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the wake of criticism of his action of patting a woman journalist\u2019s cheek after she posed a query at a recent press conference, Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit has said it was an \u201cact of appreciation\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In a signed letter addressed to Lakshmi Subramanian of The Week, Mr. Purohit says:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cI have received your email dated 18.04.2018. You had asked a question when we had got up and were proceeding to leave after the close of the press conference. I consider that question to be a good one. Therefore, as an act of appreciation for the question that you had posed, I gave a pat on your cheek considering you to be like my granddaughter. It was done with affection and to express my appreciation for your performance as a journalist, since I was also a member of that profession for about 40 years. I do understand from your mail that you\u2019re feeling hurt about the incident. I wish to express my regret and my apologies to assuage your sentiments that have been hurt. I suppose you will respond through a mail of acknowledgement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ms. Subramanian accepted the apology in a tweet, but said she was not \u201cconvinced about your contention that you did it appreciate a question I asked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: The Hindu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of criticism of his action of patting a woman journalist\u2019s cheek&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}