{"id":72375,"date":"2025-06-14T02:45:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/13\/all-our-community-are-sad-shock-and-solace-as-british-gujaratis-come-together-after-air-india-crash"},"modified":"2025-06-14T02:45:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:45:45","slug":"all-our-community-are-sad-shock-and-solace-as-british-gujaratis-come-together-after-air-india-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72375","title":{"rendered":"\u2018All our community are sad\u2019: shock and solace as British Gujaratis come together after Air India crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the close-knit community, meetings among neighbours have become vigils for the dead<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jun\/12\/air-india-flight-ai171-plane-crash-ahmedabad-india-latest-updates\">Air India crash \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe started in a terrace house back in 1971, when all the Asians were expelled from Uganda \u2013 we got bigger and bigger, and now we are many,\u201d Dhiren Kanabar said of the Shree Hindu temple and community centre in Leicester, where he works.<\/p>\n<p>The building at St Barnabas Road is testament to the growth and resilience of the city\u2019s Gujarati community, who collected money, in their earliest days in the UK, to move from a makeshift place of worship \u2013 a family home in Cromford Street \u2013 to one of the first purpose-built Hindu temples in the UK.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/13\/all-our-community-are-sad-shock-and-solace-as-british-gujaratis-come-together-after-air-india-crash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the close-knit community, meetings among neighbours have become vigils for the deadAir India crash \u2013 latest updates\u201cWe started in a terrace house back in 1971, when all the Asians were expelled from Uganda \u2013 we got bigger and bigger, and now we are &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4807,"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":[3341,62,3227,215,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-india-ahmedabad-plane-crash","category-india","category-leicester","category-london","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","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\/72375","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\/4807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72376,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72375\/revisions\/72376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}