{"id":2377,"date":"2011-10-25T10:52:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T10:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2011-10-25T10:52:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T10:52:52","slug":"cardiff-lights-the-way-for-indian-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/10\/25\/cardiff-lights-the-way-for-indian-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff lights the way for Indian celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Diwali, which means \u2018festival of lights\u2019, is the most widely celebrated festival in India and it is coming back to Cardiff<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_2460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/photo6candles.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2460\" title=\"photo6candles\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/photo6candles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/photo6candles.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/photo6candles-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2460\" title=\"photo6candles\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/photo6candles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/photo6candles.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/photo6candles-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Festival of Light<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In association with <a title=\"HCA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiacentre.co.uk\/\">Hindu Association Wales and India Centre Cardiff<\/a>(HCA), Diwali returns to the Museum of Wales on 29 October. The last two years have attracted hundreds of visitors, with almost 500 people visiting in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Holding the celebration, which involves lighting clay lamps signifying good triumphing over evil, in the museum comes from a long-standing relationship with the HCA. Centre manager Suresh Arava describes it as a knowledge sharing event, but is primarily a religious festival. Suresh says this celebration takes place because Diwali is, \u201cA very grand religious festival in India so those who can\u2019t travel to India can take part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The festival is packed with Bollywood and Bhangra music, so if you\u2019re keen to learn more about Indian culture then pop along.<\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diwali, which means \u2018festival of lights\u2019, is the most widely celebrated festival in India and it is coming back to Cardiff In association with Hindu Association Wales and India Centre Cardiff(HCA), Diwali returns to the Museum of Wales on 29 October. The last two years have attracted hundreds of visitors, with almost 500 people visiting in 2010. Holding the celebration, which involves lighting clay lamps signifying good triumphing over evil, in the museum comes from a long-standing relationship with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":2484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[264,694,695],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-culture-2","tag-diwali","tag-festival-of-light"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cardiff lights the way for Indian celebration - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/10\/25\/cardiff-lights-the-way-for-indian-celebration\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cardiff lights the way for Indian celebration - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Diwali, which means \u2018festival of lights\u2019, is the most widely celebrated festival in India and it is coming back to Cardiff In association with Hindu Association Wales and India Centre Cardiff(HCA), Diwali returns to the Museum of Wales on 29 October. 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