{"id":3588,"date":"2003-10-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/10\/13\/2003-10-13-britain-dazzled-by-dussehra-festivities\/"},"modified":"2003-10-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-13T12:00:00","slug":"2003-10-13-britain-dazzled-by-dussehra-festivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/10\/13\/2003-10-13-britain-dazzled-by-dussehra-festivities\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain Dazzled by Dussehra Festivities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/news\/5983_407956,00430005.htm\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>LONDON, ENGLAND, October 9, 2003: Indian communities across the world have celebrated Dussehra in different ways. In Slough, U.K., the effigies of the demon king Ravana, Kumbhakarna and Indrajit were burnt followed by a magnificent fireworks display. It was enjoyed by over two thousand people including the Mayor of Slough, Councillor Laurie Gleeson. An array of free entertainment kicked off soon after, including a fun fair, food stalls and games. The Dussehra festival in Slough is in its 18th year. This year a number of high profile people sent their best wishes including Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and local MP Fiona Mactaggart. The up-coming Diwali festivities, expected to be the biggest outside India, will conclude on the October 18 with a spectacular parade through the streets of Wembley. A float will be beautifully decorated in honor of the Goddess Lakshmi. <BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceLONDON, ENGLAND, October 9, 2003: Indian communities across the world have celebrated Dussehra in different ways. In Slough, U.K., the,&#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-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","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=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}