{"id":10824,"date":"2012-02-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/02\/18\/phagwa-starts-for-hindu-devotees\/"},"modified":"2012-02-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T12:00:00","slug":"phagwa-starts-for-hindu-devotees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/02\/18\/phagwa-starts-for-hindu-devotees\/","title":{"rendered":"Phagwa Starts For Hindu Devotees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,154471.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TRINIDAD\/TOBAGO, January 29, 2012: &#8220;This highly religious event welcomes the Phagwa season as devotees boil the first abee amidst the singing of devotional songs in honour of Goddess Saraswati,&#8221; said Ramsingh. Today&#8217;s event will be the precursor to Phagwa festivities on March 10. <\/p>\n<p>Vasant Panchami 2012 is titled &#8220;And May God Bless Our Nation&#8221;, as it initiates a series of programmes dedicated to the well being of the country through prayer, thanks, reflection, sharing and community action. The event also showcases the talent of a selected musician who performs as an offering to Mother Saraswati. The Kendra will be honouring Dr. Beni Balkaran, who is an accomplished singer, this year. <\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s musical offering will be followed immediately by &#8216;Chook-Olikaa&#8217;, the traditional inauguration of Phagwa 2012. Ramsingh said the &#8220;Chook-Olikaa&#8221; establishes the ritual space for the Holika bonfire which, on the full moon night of Phalgun in March, is followed by the Phagwa celebrations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source TRINIDAD\/TOBAGO, January 29, 2012: &#8220;This highly religious event welcomes the Phagwa season as devotees boil the first abee amidst,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}