{"id":76237,"date":"2019-12-13T11:09:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T11:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=76237"},"modified":"2019-12-13T11:09:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T11:09:46","slug":"papon-cancels-delhi-show-amid-tension-in-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/papon-cancels-delhi-show-amid-tension-in-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"Papon cancels Delhi show amid tension in Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Singer Papon on Thursday pulled out of a music show in Delhi, saying he would not be able to entertain fans when his home state Assam was \u201cburning, crying and under curfew\u201d over the passage of Citizenship Bill in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Papon also apologised to his fans on Twitter for the last-minute cancellation, saying he would not be able to cater to the audience in this disturbed state of mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDear Delhi, I am very sorry but I have decided not to do the concert tomorrow at \u2018imperfectoshor\u2019 as planned! My home state Assam is burning, crying and under curfew! I won\u2019t be able to entertain you the way I should in my present state of mind!\u201d the singer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Papon, whose real name is Angaraag Mahanta, said the state has been burdened with \u201cillegal immigration\u201d for decades and the people of Assam need to heard properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s painful to see the way Assam is burning! Humanity is suffering! Assam has been burdened with illegal immigration for decades! We don\u2019t deserve this! The diverse, complex mix of the Assamese culture and people and their existence needs to be understood! We need to be heard properly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Papon on Thursday pulled out of a music show in Delhi, saying he would not be able to entertain fans when his home state Assam was \u201cburning, crying and under curfew\u201d over the passage of Citizenship Bill in the Parliament. Papon also apologised to his fans on Twitter for the last-minute cancellation, saying he [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76239,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76237\/revisions\/76239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}