{"id":87303,"date":"2022-03-21T16:40:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T20:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=87303"},"modified":"2022-03-21T16:40:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T20:40:26","slug":"ottawas-indo-canadian-community-celebrates-festival-of-colours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/ottawas-indo-canadian-community-celebrates-festival-of-colours\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa&#8217;s Indo-Canadian community celebrates Festival of Colours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ottawa\u2019s Indian community marked one of their most significant holidays over the weekend with a festival of colours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Holi is an Indian festival celebrated during the eleventh month of the Bengali, Assamese, and Nepali calendars\u2014usually February or March in the Roman calendar. This year\u2019s festival landed on March 18, but annual dates can vary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Saturday, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kcica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kanata-Carleton Indo-Canadian Association<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> hosted its first annual <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1408583119621336\/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2252%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22[%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22share_link%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22share_link%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%7B%5C%22invite_link_id%5C%22%3A4728288883954335%7D%7D]%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Holi festival,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> an affair complete with music, dancing, and authentic Indian cuisine. However, founder and president Nagmani Sharma says Holi has become a celebration embraced by cultures around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CHUO spoke to Sharma on Friday to discuss the festivities planned for the weekend, and the history behind the auspicious holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoli is actually called the 'Festival of Colours,' says Sharma. \u201cOr in India, or in our culture it\u2019s the 'Festival of love.' Lots of stories are behind that, like Lord Krishna and Radha\u2014they celebrated Holi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa\u2019s Indian community marked one of their most significant holidays over the weekend with a festival of colours. Holi is an Indian festival celebrated during the eleventh month of the Bengali, Assamese, and Nepali calendars\u2014usually February or March in the Roman calendar. This year\u2019s festival landed on March 18, but annual dates can vary. On&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":87307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,218,219],"tags":[13332,13333,13334,13335,13329,13326,13328,13330,13327,13331,13337,13336],"radio":[1290],"origine":[267,269,1571],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87303"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=87303"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=87303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}