{"id":15633,"date":"2017-07-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/07\/24\/trudeau-in-kurta-pyjama-does-aarti-at-hindu-temple-and-hails-india-canada-ties\/"},"modified":"2017-07-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T12:00:00","slug":"trudeau-in-kurta-pyjama-does-aarti-at-hindu-temple-and-hails-india-canada-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/07\/24\/trudeau-in-kurta-pyjama-does-aarti-at-hindu-temple-and-hails-india-canada-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Trudeau, in Kurta-Pyjama, Does Aarti at Hindu Temple and Hails India-Canada Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/trudeau-in-kurta-pyjama-does-aarti-at-hindu-temple-and-hails-india-canada-ties\/story-UbhcPmUyj5198sGx2Je4aK.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TORONTO, CANADA, July 23, 2017 (Hindustan Times): Clad in emerald green kurta and white pyjamas, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau performed pooja at the BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir in Toronto and said how deeply Canada values the &#8220;special&#8221; relationship with India. &#8220;The relationship between our two countries is truly a special one. It&#8217;s a relationship our government and our ministers both deeply value and actively cultivate,&#8221; Trudeau said at an event to celebrate the temple&#8217;s 10th anniversary, which was attended by more than 7,500 devotees. He said he wanted to &#8220;recognize the importance of the bond between Canada and India. The more than one million Canadians of Indian origin have made countless contributions to our national fabric.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau, who started his remarks with &#8220;Jai Swaminarayan&#8221; and then a &#8220;kemcho&#8221; [&#8220;How are you? in Gujarati], said the temple perfectly represents &#8220;modern, diverse Canada.&#8221; In fact, he pointed out, as travellers arrive at Canada&#8217;s largest airport, Toronto&#8217;s Pearson International, this temple is among the first landmarks they see. He pointed out that the temple, which was constructed without the use of steel, was built &#8220;according to principles outlined in ancient Hindu scripture. It is without a doubt one of Canada&#8217;s architectural wonders with its intricate stone and wood carvings.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source TORONTO, CANADA, July 23, 2017 (Hindustan Times): Clad in emerald green kurta and white pyjamas, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,&#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-15633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15633","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=15633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}