{"id":13637,"date":"2014-07-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/07\/15\/victoria-bc-canada-holds-india-cultural-festival\/"},"modified":"2014-07-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T12:00:00","slug":"victoria-bc-canada-holds-india-cultural-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/07\/15\/victoria-bc-canada-holds-india-cultural-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria, BC, Canada Holds India Cultural Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\/india-cultural-arts-fest-to-feature-music-movies-dance-1.1185289\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VICTORIA, BC CANADA, June 27, 2014 (Times Colonist): Music, movies, dance and the auspicious arrangement of home furniture are featured in this year&#8217;s Cultural and Arts Festival of India at the Victoria Hindu Temple. A Mosaic of Music, Movies and Dance is this year&#8217;s cultural theme for the festival, running today and Sunday, and the temple wants to honor more than 100 years of Indian film.<\/p>\n<p>Suresh Basrur, temple trustee, said the first Indian movie was created in 1913, a silent picture called Raja Harishchandra. Indian cinema has since exploded into the colossal, colorful art form it is now. Other elements of this year&#8217;s festival are palm readings, astrology sessions and the always popular (and hilarious) lessons in how to wear a sari.<\/p>\n<p>The Victoria Hindu Temple in Central Saanich dates back to 1995, when Hindu families in the Victoria area banded together to buy the 100-year-old, no-longer-used St. Mary&#8217;s Anglican Church. Now, about 200 Hindu families, nearly 400 people, count themselves as temple members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source VICTORIA, BC CANADA, June 27, 2014 (Times Colonist): Music, movies, dance and the auspicious arrangement of home furniture are,&#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-13637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13637","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=13637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}