{"id":57553,"date":"2018-11-22T06:41:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T06:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57553"},"modified":"2018-11-22T06:41:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T06:41:22","slug":"bollywood-superstar-amitabh-bachchan-clears-debts-of-1398-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/11\/22\/bollywood-superstar-amitabh-bachchan-clears-debts-of-1398-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan clears debts of 1,398 farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a commendable act of kindness and generosity, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan cleared the debts\u00a0of 1,398 farmers from his home state of Uttar Pradesh. The farmers owed loans worth\u00a0more than $560,000 \u00a0to the Bank of India, which Mr Bachchan cleared in a\u00a0&#8220;one time settlement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gratitude leans across to the desire of removing some of the burdens that farmers continue to suffer from &#8230; and the inner peace it generates when the desired is completed,&#8221; the 76-year-old Indian film legend wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>So far, he has identified 70 of the farmers and has reserved a train coach to bring them to Mumbai so he can meet them in person and present them with the bank documents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I shall wish of course to give these settlements, these confirmations that their loans have been paid off, personally,&#8221; Mr Bachchan wrote.<\/p>\n<p>His post concluded with a poignant message: &#8220;GIVE .. TO THEM THAT HAVE NOT ..&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/indian-farmers-debt-bollywood-2621057201.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/indian-farmers-debt-bollywood-2621057201.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a commendable act of kindness and generosity, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan cleared the debts\u00a0of 1,398 farmers from his home state of Uttar Pradesh. The farmers owed loans worth\u00a0more than $560,000 \u00a0to the Bank of India, which Mr Bachchan cleared in a\u00a0&#8220;one time settlement&#8221;. &#8220;Gratitude leans across to the desire of removing some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}