{"id":87690,"date":"2026-01-24T09:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T09:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/bengali-yes-sir-brahmin-yes-sir-go-fall-in-line\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T09:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T09:37:12","slug":"bengali-yes-sir-brahmin-yes-sir-go-fall-in-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/bengali-yes-sir-brahmin-yes-sir-go-fall-in-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengali? Yes, SIR. Brahmin? Yes, SIR. Go, fall in line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengal&#8217;s voters, including Mukherjees and Banerjees, face hearings over &#8220;logical discrepancies&#8221; in surnames. The Election Commission&#8217;s software flags historical variations like Mukhopadhyay for Mukherjee, a simplification by the British. Many now prefer shorter versions, leading to confusion and summons, prompting criticism from CM Mamata Banerjee about cultural insensitivity.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengal&#8217;s voters, including Mukherjees and Banerjees, face hearings over &#8220;logical discrepancies&#8221; in surnames. The Election Commission&#8217;s software flags historical variations like Mukhopadhyay for Mukherjee, a simplification by the British. Many now prefer shorter versions, leading to confusion and summons, prompting criticism from CM Mamata Banerjee about cultural insensitivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":87691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}