{"id":678,"date":"2014-10-28T11:12:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T19:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southasia.washington.edu\/?p=678"},"modified":"2014-10-28T11:12:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T19:12:25","slug":"kale-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/kale-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Power to the People&#8221; &#8211; Op-Ed by Prof. Sunila Kale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasia.washington.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Power.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-679 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/southasia.washington.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Power-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"Power\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/power-to-the-people-6\/\" target=\"_blank\">op-ed<\/a> for The Indian Express, <strong>Sunila Kale<\/strong>, assistant professor of international studies and South Asian studies, examines the political and civil society efforts needed to\u00a0extend electricity to poor farmers in North India. Professor Kale will be reading from her book on the topic, <a title=\"New Book Sheds Light on Varying Success of India\u2019s Electrification Projects\" href=\"http:\/\/southasia.washington.edu\/news\/electrifying\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Electrifying India<\/em><\/a>, at a South Asia Center <a title=\"Electrifying India Book Launch\" href=\"http:\/\/southasia.washington.edu\/events\/electrifying-india-book-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\">book launch event<\/a> on November 19th.<\/p>\n<p>Read the op-ed <a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/power-to-the-people-6\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an\u00a0op-ed for The Indian Express, Sunila Kale, assistant professor of international studies and South Asian studies, examines the political and civil society efforts needed to\u00a0extend electricity to poor farmers in North India. 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