{"id":9631,"date":"2010-10-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/12\/navaratri-at-the-commonwealth-games\/"},"modified":"2010-10-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T12:00:00","slug":"navaratri-at-the-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/12\/navaratri-at-the-commonwealth-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Navaratri at the Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/StoryPage\/Print\/611935.aspx\">www.hindustantimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, October 13, 2010: Traditional clothes, tilak ceremonies, mehandi and reading scriptures are spome Navratri customs that not just Delhiites but also  athletes from 71 other countries are observing in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>Participants at the Commonwealth Games Village were treated to the traditional tilak ceremony to mark the beginning of Navratri. &#8220;Players are not venturing out for security reasons, so we are trying to give them the festive flavor inside the village,&#8221; says Ashok Kumar, incharge of operations at the Games Village.<\/p>\n<p>Dandiya performances by various troupes have also been lined up as part of the daily cultural program. &#8220;The idea is to create a fun atmosphere,&#8221; adds Kumar. The players are enjoying every bit of it. &#8220;The celebrations are quite elaborate, and we&#8217;re loving it,&#8221; says Rashid Sarafu, a Nigerian athlete.<\/p>\n<p>The Delhi government has also arranged for city tours to take athletes to culture hotspots like Dilli Haat, where the mood is even more festive. &#8220;Foreign athletes who have been there have indulged in mehandi and bought bangles and colourful dupattas,&#8221; says Rina Ray, principal secretary, Delhi government. &#8220;We have also distributed booklets that have the whole Ramayana in English,&#8221; she adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.hindustantimes.com NEW DELHI, October 13, 2010: Traditional clothes, tilak ceremonies, mehandi and reading scriptures are spome Navratri customs that,&#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-9631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631","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=9631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}