{"id":15926,"date":"2018-03-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/03\/18\/the-ashes-of-albert-allemele-scattered-in-the-ganges\/"},"modified":"2018-03-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T12:00:00","slug":"the-ashes-of-albert-allemele-scattered-in-the-ganges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/03\/18\/the-ashes-of-albert-allemele-scattered-in-the-ganges\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes of Albert Allemele Scattered in the Ganges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinique.franceantilles.fr\/actualite\/culture\/les-cendres-d-albert-allemele-dispersees-dans-le-gange-460265.php\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BASSE-POINTE, MARTINIQUE, March 13, 2018 (France-Antilles, translated from French): Albert Allemele was one of the great vatialou (master of the sacred) of Martinique. The grandson of indentured workers from South India, Albert Allemele was a great connoisseur of Hindu ceremonies. Nearly a year after his death and according to his last wish, his ashes were scattered in the sacred waters of the Ganges, India. Around the funerary urn, a prayer ceremony was held in the presence of a Swami, children and relatives. Three of his children, accompanied by cousins and friends, recently traveled to India, to the city of Varanasi, to disperse his ashes in the Ganges. &#8220;According to Hinduism, whoever dies in Varanasi and whose ashes are thrown into the Ganges, is assured of being delivered from the cycle of reincarnations and thus reach Paradise,&#8221; says his daughter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His life was India,&#8221; says Celine, one of Albert Allemele&#8217;s daughters.&#8221; In 1994, my father went there. That trip had touched him a lot.&#8221; His role at festivals was to recite in Tamil the sacred texts, sing, dance and play tapou karin [rhythm on a Tamil frame drum]. When he passed away on March 13, 2017, at the age of 89, the Indian community of Martinique paid tribute to him by organizing a Hindu vigil at the community center in Basse-Pointe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source BASSE-POINTE, MARTINIQUE, March 13, 2018 (France-Antilles, translated from French): Albert Allemele was one of the great vatialou (master of,&#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-15926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15926","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=15926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}