{"id":2329,"date":"2002-08-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/08\/27\/2002-08-27-british-hindus-seek-symbolic-local-ganges\/"},"modified":"2002-08-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-27T12:00:00","slug":"2002-08-27-british-hindus-seek-symbolic-local-ganges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/08\/27\/2002-08-27-british-hindus-seek-symbolic-local-ganges\/","title":{"rendered":"British Hindus Seek Symbolic Local Ganges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/international\/AP-Britain-Hindu-River.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>BRADFORD, ENGLAND, August 26, 2002: The 6,000-strong local Hindu population is seeking permission from Bradford City Council to turn the River Aire into a &#8220;symbolic&#8221; Ganges &#8212; India&#8217;s holiest river, which is believed to wash away sin and release the soul from the body for its heavenward journey. &#8220;Many families cannot afford the journey to India,&#8221; said Morani Gupta, chairman of the World Council of Hindus in Yorkshire. &#8220;We wanted a site where we can say farewell to our loved ones with grace and dignity.&#8221; The local council is approaching the application to immerse ashes in the river cautiously. &#8220;I can assure people that no decision on such an issue would be made without the fullest possible consultation with the local community,&#8221; said Anne Hawkesworth, the council&#8217;s environment executive.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE BRADFORD, ENGLAND, August 26, 2002: The 6,000-strong local Hindu population is seeking permission from Bradford City Council,&#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-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","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=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}