{"id":14750,"date":"2016-03-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/03\/12\/art-of-living-festival-on-delhi-flood-plain-riles-greens-worries-police\/"},"modified":"2016-03-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T12:00:00","slug":"art-of-living-festival-on-delhi-flood-plain-riles-greens-worries-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/03\/12\/art-of-living-festival-on-delhi-flood-plain-riles-greens-worries-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Art of Living Festival on Delhi Flood Plain Riles Greens, Worries Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2016\/03\/10\/indian-gurus-festival-on-delhi-floodplain-riles-greens-worries-police\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 10, 2016 (Religion News): Indian environmentalists are aghast that a huge cultural festival is to be held on the flood plain of Delhi&#8217;s main river, warning that the event, and the 3.5 million visitors expected, will devastate the area&#8217;s biodiversity. The &#8220;World Culture Festival,&#8221; organized by one of India&#8217;s best-known spiritual gurus, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, starts Friday (March 11) and spreads across 1,000 acres on the banks of the Yamuna. It features a 7-acre stage for 35,000 musicians and dancers, newly built dirt tracks and 650 portable toilets.<\/p>\n<p>Green groups accuse organizers of ripping up vegetation and ruining the river&#8217;s fragile ecosystem by damaging its bed and disrupting water flows. They want authorities to cancel the event and avert further harm. &#8220;This land is not meant for any of those things. The biodiversity of the land has been completely destroyed,&#8221; said Anand Arya, one of several environmentalists who petitioned India&#8217;s top green court.<\/p>\n<p>The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday ruled that the event could go ahead but fined Ravi Shankar&#8217;s Art of Living Foundation 50 million rupees, or $744,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 10, 2016 (Religion News): Indian environmentalists are aghast that a huge cultural festival is to,&#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-14750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750","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=14750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}