{"id":10342,"date":"2017-12-15T11:33:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T15:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/?p=10342"},"modified":"2021-09-09T12:34:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T16:34:53","slug":"10342","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/2017\/12\/15\/10342\/","title":{"rendered":"Diwali Festival, November 4, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wll\/files\/2017\/12\/diwali-party-636x475-636x475.jpg\" alt=\"diwali-party-636x475\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10346 aligncenter\" width=\"636\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>WLL Students and Faculty enjoy an evening celebrating Diwali together on November 4, 2016<\/span><\/h6>\n<p>The Hindi-Urdu Program, with support from WLL and the Center for Study of Asia, hosted a Diwali event on November 4 at the Pardee School for Global Studies. Diwali, also known as the festival of lights, is one of the biggest festivals in India. The program\u2019s student group, BU Desis, led the organization of the event. The event began with a lamp lighting ceremony by Profs Sunil Sharma, Catherine Yeh, and Shilpa Parnami, which was followed by cultural performances from BU Bhangra and BU acappella group, Suno. More than 50 BU students attended the event.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wll\/files\/2017\/12\/Diwali-party-4-636x477-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"Diwali-party-4-636x477\" class=\" wp-image-10345 aligncenter\" width=\"581\" height=\"436\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wll\/files\/2017\/12\/diwali-party-3-477x636-477x636.jpg\" alt=\"diwali-party-3-477x636\" class=\" wp-image-10344 aligncenter\" width=\"342\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wll\/files\/2017\/12\/diwali-party-2-477x636-477x636.jpg\" alt=\"diwali-party-2-477x636\" class=\"wp-image-10343 aligncenter\" width=\"344\" height=\"459\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WLL Students and Faculty enjoy an evening celebrating Diwali together on November 4, 2016 The Hindi-Urdu Program, with support from WLL and the Center for Study of Asia, hosted a Diwali event on November 4 at the Pardee School for Global Studies. Diwali, also known as the festival of lights, is one of the biggest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22868],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10348,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions\/10348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}