{"id":14985,"date":"2016-06-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/06\/06\/litterateurs-ganga-lovers-to-meet-at-haridwar-en-route-to-gangotri-for-ganga-jagao-campaign\/"},"modified":"2016-06-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T12:00:00","slug":"litterateurs-ganga-lovers-to-meet-at-haridwar-en-route-to-gangotri-for-ganga-jagao-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/06\/06\/litterateurs-ganga-lovers-to-meet-at-haridwar-en-route-to-gangotri-for-ganga-jagao-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Litterateurs, Ganga Lovers to Meet at Haridwar En Route to Gangotri for Ganga Jagao Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/dehradun\/Litterateurs-Ganga-lovers-to-meet-at-Haridwar-en-route-to-Gangotri-for-Ganga-Jagao-campaign\/articleshow\/52526116.cms\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HARIDWAR, INDIA, May 31, 2016 (Times of India): Scores of writers and activists from across the country will converge in Kolkata on June 1 to embark on a fortnight-long journey to Gangotri, during which they will sensitize people about the plight of the Ganga River and ask them to do their bit to save it from pollution. <\/p>\n<p>To mark the Ganga pakhawara (fortnight) from June 1 to 15, the writers will hold a seminar in Kolkata on June 1 before starting on the 15-day journey to Gangotri, the origin of the Ganga river. The stopovers of the yatra will be at Murshidabad, Bhagalpur, Patna, Allahabad, Kanpur and Kannauj.<\/p>\n<p>Nilay Upadhyaya, one of the organizers, said that the mission to clean Ganga cannot be achieved only through the government efforts. &#8220;It will need people&#8217;s participation on a massive scale. That is why the group of literary persons, artists, environmentalists and social activists have decided to launch a mass awakening campaign,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source HARIDWAR, INDIA, May 31, 2016 (Times of India): Scores of writers and activists from across the country will converge,&#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-14985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14985","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=14985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}