{"id":14134,"date":"2015-03-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/03\/26\/protest-as-hindu-festival-delayed-in-yangon-myanmar\/"},"modified":"2015-03-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T12:00:00","slug":"protest-as-hindu-festival-delayed-in-yangon-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/03\/26\/protest-as-hindu-festival-delayed-in-yangon-myanmar\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest as Hindu Festival Delayed in Yangon, Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmtimes.com\/index.php\/national-news\/13731-anger-as-hindu-festival-delayed.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YANGON, MYANMAR, March 26, 2015 (by Myint Thi, The Myanmar Times): An internal dispute has caused confusion among worshippers looking forward to the Sarimari Yaman Hindu Temple festival. The original dates fixed by the temple&#8217;s religious authority were March 20-29, but the All Myanmar Hindu Central Council wants it to run from March 27 to April 5, citing a one-day clash with matriculation exams. &#8220;I know the brahmin said the festival should start on March 20. But the God won&#8217;t punish us if we hold it a bit later,&#8221; said U Maung Shwe, president of the All Myanmar Hindu Central Council.&#8221;This is the matriculation exam period, and I&#8217;m worried there may be violence so I decided to postpone the festival,&#8221; he said, declining to elaborate as to why violence could be a concern.<\/p>\n<p>Worshipers, however, say the council has no authority to reschedule the event. The temple&#8217;s rules, which have been in force since 1914, state the festival must be conducted.They dismissed the concern of violence, saying there had been no conflict during previous festivals. &#8220;I think they want to topple the current trustees. This is the only reason the council has interfered with the temple&#8217;s activities,&#8221; said temple patron SP Naathal. This year was to mark the 135th festival of the Sarimari Yaman, a Hindu temple for about 20,000 Tamil Hindu worshippers. It is now unclear when the festival will go ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source YANGON, MYANMAR, March 26, 2015 (by Myint Thi, The Myanmar Times): An internal dispute has caused confusion among worshippers,&#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-14134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14134","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=14134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}