{"id":1885,"date":"2020-03-26T11:33:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-global-press.pantheonsite.io\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2020-03-26T11:33:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:03:34","slug":"pm-modi-wishes-doctors-others-who-are-leading-in-fight-against-covid-19-chaitra-navratri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=1885","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi Wishes Doctors, Others Who Are Leading in Fight Against Covid-19: Chaitra Navratri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\"> The Navratri is a nine-day long festival and during this period, people worship nine avatars of Goddess Durga, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/news\/india\/chaitra-navratri-2020-pm-narendra-modi-wishes-doctors-others-on-frontline-in-fight-against-covid-19-2550043.html\">News 18 <\/a>has reported. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>Chaitra Navratri 2020 begins on March 25, Wednesday and ends on April 2. The Navratri is a nine-day long festival and during this period, people worship nine avatars of Goddess Durga. The ninth day of Navratri is celebrated as &#8216;Ram Navmi&#8217;; the day Lord Ram took birth. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished the country on the occasion of the first day of Navratri on Twitter and dedicated it to all the doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers who are serving the COVID-19 affected, putting their own life at risk. <\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are celebrating various festivals across India and also the start of a New Year as per our traditional calendar. <br><br>Greetings on Ugadi, Gudi Padava, Navreh and Sajibu Cheiraoba.<br><br>May these auspicious occasions bring good health, happiness and prosperity in our lives.<\/p>&mdash; Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/1242639756678160384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>The festival marks the beginning of the new year of Hindu calendar. Being the goddess of shakti (power), Goddess Durga provides inner strength to her devotees.<\/p>\n\n\n<p> During the nine days, Goddess Durga is worshipped in nine avatars, Shailaputri, Brahmacharini, Chandraghanta, Kushmanda, Skandamata, Kaalratri, Katyayani, Mahagauri and Siddhidhatri.  On the first day of Chaitra Navratri, devotees worship Goddess Shailaputri. <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\">Image source: www.hellotravel.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navratri is a nine-day long festival and during this period, people worship nine avatars of Goddess Durga, News 18 has reported. Chaitra Navratri 2020 begins on March 25, Wednesday and ends on April 2. The Navratri is a nine-day long festival and during this period, people worship nine avatars of Goddess Durga. The ninth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":1886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19,20,497,448],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885"}],"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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}