{"id":5642,"date":"2014-09-25T11:39:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T08:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=5642"},"modified":"2020-05-20T09:41:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T08:41:24","slug":"major-writers-festival-in-indonesia-to-honor-hindu-goddess-saraswati-5642","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/major-writers-festival-in-indonesia-to-honor-hindu-goddess-saraswati-5642\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Writers Festival in Indonesia to honor Hindu goddess Saraswati"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Hindu-goddess-Saraswati.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5643\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Hindu-goddess-Saraswati-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Hindu goddess Saraswati\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" title=\"\"><\/a>The 11th Ubud Writers &amp; Readers Festival, said to be Southeast Asia&#8217;s most renowned literary and cultural event, being held from October 1-5 in Bali (Indonesia), will honor Hindu goddess Saraswati.<\/h1>\n<p>About 150 \u201cliterary stars\u201d from over 25 countries are reportedly participating in this Festival, whose objective talks about the \u201cspirit of cross-cultural understanding\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Project of a not-for-profit foundation first conceived by its co-founder Janet DeNeefe, held annually in Bali\u2019s artistic and cultural heartland Ubud, this Festival\u2019s mission is \u201cto create a world class festival that celebrates extraordinary stories and amplifies brave voices; tackles global issues and big ideas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, commended Festival organizers for honoring Saraswati; highly revered Hindu goddess of knowledge\/learning, music, art, language\/speech, and poetry. Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, also praised organizers for efforts at promoting cross-cultural understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Embassy of Indonesia in Washington DC (USA) last year raised a 10-foot statue of goddess Saraswati on a public space on Massachusetts Avenue NW, about a mile away from White House.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia has the largest Muslim population than any other country in the world; where Muslims form about 88% of the population and Hindus about 3%.<\/p>\n<p>Hinduism is the oldest and third largest religion of the world with about one billion adherents and moksh (liberation) is its ultimate goal.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 11th Ubud Writers &#038; Readers Festival, said to be Southeast Asia&#8217;s most renowned literary and cultural event, being held from October 1-5 in Bali (Indonesia), will honor Hindu goddess Saraswati.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,7877,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-politics","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8470,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642\/revisions\/8470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}