{"id":13066,"date":"2013-09-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/09\/30\/hindu-students-in-america-provide-colorful-experience\/"},"modified":"2013-09-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T12:00:00","slug":"hindu-students-in-america-provide-colorful-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/09\/30\/hindu-students-in-america-provide-colorful-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Students In America Provide Colorful Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesunflower.com\/news\/campus_life\/article_aeb9d336-2466-11e3-81d4-001a4bcf6878.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WICHITA, KANSAS, September 23, 2013 (The Sunflower): To the people of India, drawing pictures with colorful sand is an exciting folk art symbolizing the welcoming of family, friends and Hindu Deities, or Gods. Through a traditional form of Indian art called Rangoli, Hindu families take part in an ancient and sacred ritual.<\/p>\n<p>With &#8220;Flavors and Colors,&#8221; the Association of Hindu Students of America, AHINSA, was able to give the people of Wichita a unique opportunity to experience the art, culture and food of India. &#8220;It&#8217;s out-of-the-box, something that people here probably haven&#8217;t had the chance to experience,&#8221; said Vivek Abhilash, the director of publicity for AHINSA. &#8220;We chose the Ulrich museum, because it was a perfect fit and they were happy to have us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The theme for the Rangoli drawings was the Ulrich exhibition Nature&#8217;s Toolbox, which is also the current theme for the museum&#8217;s second floor gallery. &#8220;You could be innovative, or you can just do the traditional geometric designs and flowers,&#8221; AHINSA president Madhulika Srikanth said.<\/p>\n<p>Those who created art weren&#8217;t solely of Indian descent. A group of 7-year-old Girl Scouts were &#8220;just trying to figure,&#8221; troop leader Brenda Lichman said. &#8220;We&#8217;re here to get our painting badge,&#8221; Lichman said. &#8220;This is a different way of painting with different materials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The art of Rangoli has evolved over the years into a competition, while still rooted in celebration. This year, the top two drawings were recognized and awarded with gift cards to Taco Bell and Applebee&#8217;s, along with Ulrich Museum t-shirts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source WICHITA, KANSAS, September 23, 2013 (The Sunflower): To the people of India, drawing pictures with colorful sand is an,&#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-13066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13066","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=13066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}