{"id":1898,"date":"2002-04-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/04\/16\/2002-04-16-holi-traditions-in-richmond-hill\/"},"modified":"2002-04-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-16T12:00:00","slug":"2002-04-16-holi-traditions-in-richmond-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/04\/16\/2002-04-16-holi-traditions-in-richmond-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Holi Traditions in Richmond Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/features\/printedition\/ny-faith2666614apr13.story?coll=ny%2Dfeatures%2Dprint\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, USA, April 14, 2002: When Mickey Sankar immigrated to the United States six years ago, he brought along happy memories of Holi, the Hindu New Year. &#8220;For the whole week, we played,&#8221; Sankar, 24, of Ozone Park, recalls of the celebrations in his hometown on Guyana&#8217;s Caribbean coast. &#8220;We went to every house. We had a nice time with our jars of paint.&#8221; Now his spiritual home is the Shri Lakshmi Narayan Mandir, a small Hindu temple on commercial Liberty Avenue in Richmond Hill. This year, Sankar and his twin brother, Ricky, enjoyed Holi in the mandir&#8217;s warm embrace, praying, eating sweets and marching in a parade along Jamaica Avenue in Hollis. They wound up at a concert in Haggerty Park along with hundreds of Hindus from seven mandirs, or churches, throughout Queens. Many of the mandirs&#8217; devotees are originally from Trinidad or Guyana, where Holi is a national holiday marked by neighborhood-to- neighborhood revelry. Gyanda &#8220;Eric&#8221; Shivnarain, 42, a New York City Democratic political consultant, used this year&#8217;s Holi celebration to bring greater visibility to the city&#8217;s Hindus &#8212; which Shivnarain estimated at 150,000 of Indo-Caribbean descent and 200,000 from India.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, USA, April 14, 2002: When Mickey Sankar immigrated to the United States six years ago,,&#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-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","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=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}