{"id":19634,"date":"2023-06-28T02:40:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T02:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=19634"},"modified":"2023-06-28T02:40:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T02:40:36","slug":"swindon-celebrates-rath-yatra-hindu-festival-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2023\/06\/28\/swindon-celebrates-rath-yatra-hindu-festival-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Swindon Celebrates Rath Yatra Hindu Festival for First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM, June 21, 2023 (BBC): Rath Yatra &#8212; or Chariot Festival &#8212; attracts millions in India and has now been celebrated in Swindon, Wiltshire, for the first time. The festival procession started from the Swindon Hindu Centre. It featured a colorful chariot, a flag flown in from a temple in India and some special offerings, chanting and dancing. Amala Manjari Devi Dasi traveled from Reading for the event. She said: &#8220;Rath mean&#8217;s chariot and Yatra means procession. This is a chariot festival where the Lord of the Universe Jagannath is coming.&#8221;<br><br>Siddarth Patel from the Swindon Hindu Centre helped to organize the event. &#8220;Swindon has never had this Rath Yatra before. Other cities like Reading and Bristol have had it so it&#8217;s really a pleasure to have it in Swindon. &#8220;There&#8217;s a whole team of people who have put in a huge amount of effort. It&#8217;s taken three months to build the chariot and we&#8217;ve got some really great DIY engineers who have done a fantastic job.&#8221;<br><br>Colorful photos at source.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-wiltshire-65968724\n\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-wiltshire-65968724<br><\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED KINGDOM, June 21, 2023 (BBC): Rath Yatra &#8212; or Chariot Festival &#8212; attracts millions in India and has now,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19634","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19663,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19634\/revisions\/19663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}