{"id":7036,"date":"2002-10-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/10\/14\/jail-house-rocks-with-bhangra-rap\/"},"modified":"2002-10-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-14T12:00:00","slug":"jail-house-rocks-with-bhangra-rap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/10\/14\/jail-house-rocks-with-bhangra-rap\/","title":{"rendered":"Jail House Rocks With Bhangra-Rap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/cms.dll\/articleshow?artid=24882084  \">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><P>OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, October 11, 2002: Multiculturalism finally entered the grim world of England&#8217;s famously-austere Victorian prisons on Thursday, but it marched to the sweet tones of the sitar and sang in Hindi. Two Jalandhar boys &#8212; one behind bars, the other strutting the world stage as creator of bhangra-rap &#8212; brought India to hundreds of petty criminals, murderers and white collar criminals in the first Asian music festival inside a Western high-security prison. The concert, part of Britain&#8217;s prison reform and rehabilitation drive, took Steve Kapur into Her Majesty&#8217;s Prison Bullingdon. South Asian prisoners are doubly benefited, said Katy Lewis of the the charitable Irene Taylor Trust, adding that research had found &#8220;Indians don&#8217;t normally participate in prison events, but such a festival also helps the white prisoners understand their culture.&#8221; Some of the Hindu prisoners (there aren&#8217;t many) have formed a bhajana group.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCEOXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, October 11, 2002: Multiculturalism finally entered the grim world of England&#8217;s famously-austere Victorian prisons on Thursday,,&#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-7036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036","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=7036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}