{"id":5679,"date":"2005-10-31T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/10\/31\/2005-10-31-bombs-cast-pall-over-even-new-zealand-s-diwali-celebrations\/"},"modified":"2005-10-31T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T12:00:00","slug":"2005-10-31-bombs-cast-pall-over-even-new-zealand-s-diwali-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/10\/31\/2005-10-31-bombs-cast-pall-over-even-new-zealand-s-diwali-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombs Cast Pall Over Even New Zealand&#8217;s Diwali Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/search\/story.cfm?storyid=000D2AFB-B615-1364-A84D83027AF1010F\">www.nzherald.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, October 31, 2005: Thousands thronged Auckland&#8217;s Aotea Square as the city put its best hennaed foot forward for the Hindu festival of lights yesterday. But a shadow fell over Diwali celebrations, after a series of explosions in the Indian capital, New Delhi, left more than 50 people dead. Many of the victims were women and children, out shopping for Diwali and Eid al-Fitr festivities marking the holy month of Ramadan&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<p>At the square yesterday, the big bhangra beats of Bollywood boomed as people milled under the sun, enjoying offerings of Indian breads, sweets and savories. Many &#8211; including Auckland City Mayor Dick Hubbard &#8211; sported bindis on their foreheads, and women wearing colorful saris stood out. Inside Aotea Centre, stalls sold everything from shawls to incense, while a steady stream of people attended Indian dance workshops. <\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Helen Clark has condemned the New Delhi attacks, and said she was sending a letter of condolence to India&#8217;s Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.nzherald.co.nz AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, October 31, 2005: Thousands thronged Auckland&#8217;s Aotea Square as the city put its best hennaed foot,&#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-5679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679","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=5679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}