{"id":553102,"date":"2026-04-27T10:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/553102\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:32:08","slug":"raghu-rai-the-photographer-who-showed-india-to-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/553102\/","title":{"rendered":"Raghu Rai: The photographer who showed India to itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rich tributes continue to pour in for Raghu Rai, India&#8217;s most celebrated photojournalist, following his death at the age of 83.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rai spent more than five decades documenting the country, capturing moments from political power to everyday life with striking clarity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From the aftermath of the gas tragedy in central India&#8217;s Bhopal to the years of militancy in northern India&#8217;s Punjab, which killed thousands in the 1980s, Rai&#8217;s images shaped how India saw its most defining events. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His work did not merely record history but shaped how a nation saw it. It helped define modern Indian photojournalism, earning global recognition and influencing generations of photographers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rich tributes continue to pour in for Raghu Rai, India&#8217;s most celebrated photojournalist, following his death at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-553102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}