{"id":72419,"date":"2025-06-16T05:26:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T20:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/15\/we-needed-somewhere-to-mourn-indian-community-in-london-keep-vigil-for-victims"},"modified":"2025-06-16T05:26:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T20:26:18","slug":"we-needed-somewhere-to-mourn-indians-in-london-keep-vigil-for-victims-of-air-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72419","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We needed somewhere to mourn\u2019: Indians in London keep vigil for victims of air disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarati communities in the capital gather to commemorate more than 270 victims who died in Ahmedabad air crash<\/p>\n<p>As the late afternoon sun streamed into a small square behind the Indian High Commission in London on Sunday, a crowd of 200 people gathered for a vigil \u2013 one of several held around the UK this weekend to remember those who died in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/12\/how-air-india-plane-crash-unfolded\">Air India disaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Candles were placed beneath <a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonremembers.com\/memorials\/nehru-bust\">a bust of Jawaharlal Nehru<\/a> and attenders listened to inter-faith leaders and members from the Gujarati community who had come to reflect on a shocking week of loss.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/15\/we-needed-somewhere-to-mourn-indian-community-in-london-keep-vigil-for-victims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarati communities in the capital gather to commemorate more than 270 victims who died in Ahmedabad air crashAs the late afternoon sun streamed into a small square behind the Indian High Commission in London on Sunday, a crowd of 200 people gathered &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4814,"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":[3341,665,873,62,931,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-india-ahmedabad-plane-crash","category-airline-industry","category-boeing","category-india","category-plane-crashes","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\/72419","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\/4814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72420,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72419\/revisions\/72420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}