{"id":13124,"date":"2013-10-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/10\/30\/nine-day-diwali-event-in-trinidad-26-tobago\/"},"modified":"2013-10-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T12:00:00","slug":"nine-day-diwali-event-in-trinidad-26-tobago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/10\/30\/nine-day-diwali-event-in-trinidad-26-tobago\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine-Day Diwali Event In Trinidad %26 Tobago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/fwire\/nine-day-diwali-event-in-trinidad-tobago-1192737.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD\/TOBAGO, October 24, 2013 (First Post): The first Hindu chaplain of the US army, Capt. Pratima Dharm will be the chief guest at the 27th Divali Nagar, the annual exposition of Indo-Trinidadian culture held on the occasion of Diwali, that will be held Oct 24-Nov 1 in the borough of Chaguanas in Trinidad and Tobago. <\/p>\n<p>President of the National Council of Indian Culture (NCIC) Deokienanan Sharma said the nine-day affair would promote Indian art, music, religion, culture and songs reflecting the Indian diaspora since its arrival from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in India in 1845.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year&#8217;s presentation will offer a show never seen before, and we expect over 100,000 people to attend not only from Trinidad and Tobago, but the rest of the Caribbean, the US, Canada, Europe and India,&#8221; Sharma said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Divali Nagar, since its inception, continues to capture the national imagination for its unique presentation and adaptation,&#8221; he added. This year&#8217;s theme is dedicated to the Hindu God Lord Krishna, who espoused the universal message of truth, peace and non-violence in the Bhagvad Gita which is now recognized as the most cherished and precious gift of India&#8217;s heritage and its quintessential philosophy and ethics, he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD\/TOBAGO, October 24, 2013 (First Post): The first Hindu chaplain of the US army, Capt. Pratima Dharm will,&#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-13124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13124","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=13124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}