{"id":3039,"date":"2003-04-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/04\/29\/2003-04-29-hindi-mela-planned-in-surinam\/"},"modified":"2003-04-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-29T12:00:00","slug":"2003-04-29-hindi-mela-planned-in-surinam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/04\/29\/2003-04-29-hindi-mela-planned-in-surinam\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindi Mela Planned in Surinam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/cms.dll\/html\/uncomp\/articleshow?msid=-149253744\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>PARAMARIBO, SURINAM, April 29, 2003: The World Hindi Conference is to be held in Paramaribo, Surinam, June 5-9, 2003. Five hundred scholars and experts are expected to attend the conference in the South American country, which has a Hindi-speaking population of more than 150,000, around 30 percent of its total population. The decision to hold the conference in Surinam, which won in a close contest over Holland, its former colonial master, was taken on the urging of the Indian diaspora based there, the descendants of 19th century migrants. <BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourcePARAMARIBO, SURINAM, April 29, 2003: The World Hindi Conference is to be held in Paramaribo, Surinam, June 5-9, 2003. Five,&#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-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","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=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}