{"id":4007,"date":"2004-03-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/03\/01\/2004-03-01-guyana-celebrates-phagwah\/"},"modified":"2004-03-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-01T12:00:00","slug":"2004-03-01-guyana-celebrates-phagwah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/03\/01\/2004-03-01-guyana-celebrates-phagwah\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Celebrates Phagwah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.stabroeknews.com\/index.pl\/article?id=3990705\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, February 28, 2004: In Central Georgetown today, a Phagwah Mela and Bazaar will be held on the lawns of the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha&#8217;s Sanskritik Kendra, Prashad Nagar. The Sabha will also inaugurate an Art and Craft Shop during the Mela. There will be dancing, music, exhibits, games and delicacies, a release from the Sabha said. Alcoholic beverages are strictly prohibited, the release noted. Meantime, the Sabha has organized seven Chowtaal Samelans countrywide tomorrow as a prelude to the Phagwah celebrations, the release said. The events will be held at Affiance Mandir, Essequibo, at 9:30 am, at Cotton Tree Mandir, West Berbice at 11:00 am and at the Blanken-burg Dharmic Trimurti Mandir, West Coast Deme-rara at 2:00 pm. Other Chowtaal Samelan functions will be held at 10:00 am at Edinburgh Mandir, East Bank Berbice, Number 1 Road Mandir, Central Corentyne, Number 47 Village Mandir, Upper Corentyne. These Samelans, the release said, bring Chowtaal Goles from various mandirs in the respective regions in a lively atmosphere where the groups excel in the varying Phagwah melodies followed by the exchange of greetings and good wishes for the season. Phagwah will be celebrated on Sunday, March 7 and Monday, March 8 will be a national holiday.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceGEORGETOWN, GUYANA, February 28, 2004: In Central Georgetown today, a Phagwah Mela and Bazaar will be held on the lawns,&#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-4007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007","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=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}