{"id":8325,"date":"2009-10-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/08\/durga-festival-in-kampala\/"},"modified":"2009-10-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T12:00:00","slug":"durga-festival-in-kampala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/08\/durga-festival-in-kampala\/","title":{"rendered":"Durga Festival In Kampala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00ac\u2020http:\/\/www.observer.ug\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=5361:durga-festival-in-kampala&amp;catid=42:entertainment&amp;Itemid=74<\/p>\n<p>UGANDA, October 4, 2004: On Sunday, September 27, Uganda&#8217;s Indian community concluded four days of festivities in honor of the Goddess Durga. Symbolising strength, femininity and motherhood, the eight-armed, trident-wielding Durga triumphs over evil and is one of Hinduism&#8217;s most popular Goddesses.<\/p>\n<p>She is especially revered by millions of Bengalis from Eastern India, who comprise many of Uganda&#8217;s Hindus. This is the second year that Uganda&#8217;s small Bengali community has organized the festivities in Kampala, at the Indian Association grounds on Nakasero Lane.<\/p>\n<p>The statue of the Goddess, created by Bengali artisans, was freighted in from Calcutta, India, as was a Hindu priest who recited prayers in Sanskrit. As per Hindu tradition, She was later immersed in water (Lake Victoria at Munyonyo) symbolizing the Deity&#8217;s return to the elements and primeval consciousness.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00ac\u2020http:\/\/www.observer.ug\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=5361:durga-festival-in-kampala&amp;catid=42:entertainment&amp;Itemid=74 UGANDA, October 4, 2004: On Sunday, September 27, Uganda&#8217;s Indian community concluded four days of festivities in honor of,&#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-8325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325","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=8325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}