{"id":11790,"date":"2006-09-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/09\/23\/gujarat-s-dandiya-spirit-moves-new-delhites\/"},"modified":"2006-09-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T12:00:00","slug":"gujarat-s-dandiya-spirit-moves-new-delhites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/09\/23\/gujarat-s-dandiya-spirit-moves-new-delhites\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat&#8217;s Dandiya Spirit Moves New Delhites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/features\/showfeatures.asp?slug=Dandiya+makes+way+into+Delhi+hearts&#038;id=1455\">www.ndtv.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 23, 2006: The traditional Gujarati folk dance where dancers form two circles, moving clockwise and counter-clockwise, holding dandiyas (two sticks) and strike them against their traveling partner&#8217;s pair has become wildly popular outside of Gujarat. This Navaratri dance celebration has invaded India&#8217;s capital where people have committed themselves to learning the dance correctly. Gearing up for festivities, some have been training under a group of professional folk dancers from Gujarat. No pulsating music or Bollywood remixes, this is real dandiya in all its traditional glory. For around US$22, you get 20 classes and a Punjabi housewife says it&#8217;s one of her best investments. &#8220;You learn culture and you get exercise,&#8221; she said.  &#8220;We saw dandiya over the years in Delhi, and we&#8217;ve noticed it&#8217;s not the pure form. People can dance to remixes but we want them to know the real traditional version which is why we are teaching them,&#8221; said Bhagwati, member, Lok Utsav.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.ndtv.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 23, 2006: The traditional Gujarati folk dance where dancers form two circles, moving clockwise and,&#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-11790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11790","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=11790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}