{"id":16770,"date":"2016-08-17T13:44:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T08:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=16767&amp;preview_id=16767"},"modified":"2016-08-17T13:44:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T08:14:23","slug":"first-international-raksha-bandhan-festival-on-aug-17-rss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=16770","title":{"rendered":"First &#8216;International Raksha Bandhan&#8217; festival on Aug 17: RSS &#8211; Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: A first-of-its-kind International Raksha Bandhan festival will be organised here on August 17 which will be attended by intellectuals and representatives from nearly 40 countries, RSS leader Indresh Kumar said today.&#8221;I want to inform that on August 17, a day before Raksha Bandhan, an International Raksha Bandhan festival will be organised at the Talkatora Stadium,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The senior RSS leader made the announcement during a symposium, organised here by Vishwagram Trust, titled &#8216;Peace, People and Possibilities in Kashmir&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You all are invited to first International Raksha Bandhan festival,&#8221; he told the audience at the two-day event that concluded today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would be amazing, unique and true,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Representatives from more than 30-40 countries and intellectuals, litterateurs and people like you and I will be attending in the event.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kumar said, &#8220;Raksha Bandhan is a festival which can provide way for answers to many global problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This would be a successful experiment and don&#8217;t come alone, bring along your children and others also,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A first-of-its-kind International Raksha Bandhan festival will be organised here on August 17 which will be attended by intellectuals and representatives from nearly 40 countries, RSS leader Indresh Kumar said today.&#8221;I want to inform that on August 17, a day before Raksha Bandhan, an International Raksha Bandhan festival will be organised at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}