{"id":2994,"date":"2003-04-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/04\/14\/2003-04-14-bangladesh-hindus-take-holy-dip-in-brahmaputra\/"},"modified":"2003-04-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-14T12:00:00","slug":"2003-04-14-bangladesh-hindus-take-holy-dip-in-brahmaputra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/04\/14\/2003-04-14-bangladesh-hindus-take-holy-dip-in-brahmaputra\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh Hindus Take Holy Dip in Brahmaputra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/independentbangladesh.com\/news\/apr\/10\/10042003mt.htm#A9\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>DHAKA, BANGLADESH, April 10, 2003: Thousands of Hindus on Wednesday took a dip in the Brahmaputra river at Langalbandh, near Dhaka, in an annual event. It was estimated around 30,000 devotees had converged to bathe in an offshoot of the Brahmaputra river. &#8220;We are taking a dip to wash away sin, and the atmosphere is festive as more and more people are arriving,&#8221; one devotee said. Organizers said usually more than 100,000 Hindus from around the country as well as neighboring India, Nepal and Sri Lanka join in the two-day ceremony.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceDHAKA, BANGLADESH, April 10, 2003: Thousands of Hindus on Wednesday took a dip in the Brahmaputra river at Langalbandh, near,&#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-2994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994","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=2994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}