{"id":24079,"date":"2020-10-22T22:48:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T13:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/22\/corona-demons-tower-over-indias-durga-puja-festival"},"modified":"2020-10-22T22:48:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T13:48:17","slug":"corona-demons-tower-over-indias-durga-puja-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24079","title":{"rendered":"Corona demons tower over India&#8217;s Durga Puja festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artisans preparing Hindu festival have responded creatively to the pandemic and its problems<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Every autumn the streets of Kolkata come alive with the sounds of Durga Puja. The Hindu festival, which celebrates the triumph of good over evil, is marked in West Bengal and neighbouring states as a time for dancing, drumming, eating and worship.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the festival\u2019s most defining feature is the <em>pandal<\/em> \u2013 towering displays of religious sculptures depicting the story of Durga Puja: the moment that the Hindu goddess Durga triumphed over the demon Mahishasura.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/22\/corona-demons-tower-over-indias-durga-puja-festival\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artisans preparing Hindu festival have responded creatively to the pandemic and its problemsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageEvery autumn the streets of Kolkata come alive with the sounds of Durga Puja. The Hindu festival, wh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,516,62,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-hinduism","category-india","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24080,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24079\/revisions\/24080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}