{"id":3571,"date":"2003-10-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/10\/04\/2003-10-04-eco-friendly-durga-puja\/"},"modified":"2003-10-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-04T12:00:00","slug":"2003-10-04-eco-friendly-durga-puja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/10\/04\/2003-10-04-eco-friendly-durga-puja\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco-Friendly Durga Puja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/news\/674_397998,00310001.htm\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 2, 2003: Durga Puja is a grand annual ritual, and this year Milan Samiti of CR Park in New Delhi has added a special touch by going eco-friendly. Hogla patta (dry leaves from the Sunderbans) have been used for decoration. A clever play of lights, procured from Chandanpur, tells a story graphically, and terra-cotta is used to decorate the pandal. The main attraction is the Durga icon that has been made from biodegradable and non-synthetic materials. The statue also has American Diamond bindis. &#8220;Adhering to eco-friendly patterns saw our costs shoot up, but all the members of the Samiti remain focussed on making the pujas a celebration with an intelligent use of products that could be re-used or are biodegradable,&#8221; informs Arun Roy, the Secretary of the Samiti. &#8220;We have also picked up some of these decorative items from Republic Day floats. This is our way of contributing to saving the environment from waste,&#8221; says Arup Dasgupta, who has designed the pandal. The Milan Samiti of K-Block, CR Park, had won the Best Pandal award last year, and this year they&#8217;re making an effort to celebrate the pujas with grandeur, but minimize all unnecessary waste.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, October 2, 2003: Durga Puja is a grand annual ritual, and this year Milan Samiti of CR,&#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-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571","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=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}