{"id":17683,"date":"2020-11-14T14:06:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T09:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=17683"},"modified":"2020-11-14T14:06:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T09:06:26","slug":"hindu-community-lights-up-the-dark-days-of-covid-19-with-diwali-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/17683","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Community lights up the dark days of COVID-19 with Diwali celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The festival of lights is back.\u00a0 Hindus are celebrating Diwali<\/em>\u00a0 with zeal and fervour\u00a0 today, \u00a0families and the community decorating their houses and temples with colourful lights. This festival\u00a0 is also known as Deepavali or the festival of lights<\/p>\n

the festival started off with morning prayers, specially for peace and progress in the country. Diwali is celebrated over a period of five days.
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The festivities include decoration of houses and temples with rangoli, lights, flowers and diyas.<\/p>\n

Special “poojas” will be held in different temples while sweets will also be distributed among the people during observance of religious festivity of Hinduism.
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Diwali is celebrated at the end of every autumn to commemorate the victory of Hindu god Lord Rama \u2014 or Ramachandra \u2014 over evil Ravana and how he spent 14 years in tranquillity. Celebrated for five days, it also marks the start of the new year of Hindu calendar.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 Hindu community also lit earthen lamps in the night and fireworks were also be exhibited to celebrate the festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The festival of lights is back.\u00a0 Hindus are celebrating Diwali\u00a0 with zeal and fervour\u00a0 today, \u00a0families and the community decorating their houses and temples with colourful lights. This festival\u00a0 is also known as Deepavali or the festival of lights the festival started off with morning prayers, specially for peace and progress in the country. Diwali […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,33,31,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-india","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17687,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683\/revisions\/17687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}