{"id":9363,"date":"2010-08-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/06\/commonwealth-games-conflicting-with-ramilila-and-durga-puga\/"},"modified":"2010-08-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T12:00:00","slug":"commonwealth-games-conflicting-with-ramilila-and-durga-puga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/06\/commonwealth-games-conflicting-with-ramilila-and-durga-puga\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Games Conflicting with Ramilila and Durga Puga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newkerala.com\/news2\/fullnews-4364.html\">www.newkerala.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 21, 2010: The Commonwealth Games in the city may prove a dampener for Ramlila and Durga Puja celebrations during the festive period in October. After asking schools and markets to shut down during the Oct 3-14 Games, Delhi Police now have Ramlila celebrations and Durga Puja on the radar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are asking that the fairs associated with the Ramlilas be rescheduled. The fairs have no religious relevance and could be organized three or four days later,&#8221; Delhi Police Commissioner Y.S. Dadwal told reporters at the Police Headquarters. The Commonwealth Games in Delhi would coincide with the annual Ramlila fairs throughout the capital from October 7.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers of the religious-cum-community events are fuming. Subhash Goyal, who organises Chandni Chowk&#8217;s popular Luv-Kush Ramlila, argued that the fairs transform the religious nature of the event to that of a community festival: &#8220;How can the commissioner say the fairs associated with these events are irrelevant? The fairs are what draw the people to them,&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.newkerala.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 21, 2010: The Commonwealth Games in the city may prove a dampener for Ramlila,&#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-9363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363","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=9363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}