{"id":1504,"date":"2002-01-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/01\/01\/2002-01-01-vedic-hymns-for-saarc-conference-in-nepal\/"},"modified":"2002-01-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-01T12:00:00","slug":"2002-01-01-vedic-hymns-for-saarc-conference-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/01\/01\/2002-01-01-vedic-hymns-for-saarc-conference-in-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Vedic Hymns for SAARC Conference in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindustan Times<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>KATHMANDU, NEPAL, December 26, 2001: As war clouds gather over India and Pakistan, Nepal is busy short-listing Vedic peace hymns for the inauguration of the three day South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit beginning here from January 4. A SAARC diplomat said on Wednesday, &#8220;Nepal is making a departure from the past by agreeing to open the summit with readings from the Vedas.&#8221; Confirming this , a Nepalese official indicated that the hymns would be related to world peace. The SAARC official said, &#8220;Unlike Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Maldives, Nepal, despite being a Hindu nation, seldom gives a religious colour to SAARC programs.&#8221; He said there had been requests from various quarters to include religious recitations in the inauguration.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindustan Times KATHMANDU, NEPAL, December 26, 2001: As war clouds gather over India and Pakistan, Nepal is busy,&#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-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","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=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}