{"id":10419,"date":"2012-03-26T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=10419"},"modified":"2012-03-27T11:27:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T10:27:18","slug":"fox-13-tv-news-on-holi-and-ksl-tv-channel-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=10419","title":{"rendered":"On CNN, Fox 13 TV News on Holi and KSL TV Channel 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On CNN: <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/video\/?hpt=hp_c2#\/video\/us\/2012\/03\/26\/pkg-kstu-ut-colors-festival.kstu\">http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/video\/?hpt=hp_c2#\/video\/us\/2012\/03\/26\/pkg-kstu-ut-colors-festival.kstu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Link to Fox 13 coverage of Holi<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fox13now.com\/2012\/03\/25\/thousands-celebrate-festival-of-colors-at-spanish-fork-krishna-temple\/\">http:\/\/fox13now.com\/2012\/03\/25\/thousands-celebrate-festival-of-colors-at-spanish-fork-krishna-temple\/<\/a><br \/>\nSPANISH FORK, Utah \u2014 Tens of thousands of people gathered at the Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork for the annual Festival of Colors.<\/p>\n<p>The Festival of Colors, also known as Holi, is a festival celebrated every spring by Hindus. As part of the celebration, participants traditionally throw scented powder and perfume at each other. The festival has roots to many Hindu legends, most celebrating the victory of good over evil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe colors come from the emergence of spring after the stark bleakness of winter. Everything bursts forth in colors and fragrance and so that\u2019s emulated through the festival,\u201d said Charu Das, the founder of the Lotus Temple.<\/p>\n<p>The event in Spanish Fork took place on Saturday and Sunday, but another Festival of Colors will take place at the Krishna Temple in Salt Lake City on April 14 between noon and 6 p.m.<br \/>\nKSL TV:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/?sid=19729645&#038;nid=1016&#038;s_cid=article-popular-1\">http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/?sid=19729645&#038;nid=1016&#038;s_cid=article-popular-1<\/a><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?embedCode=k3aGg5NDqVHY8uQ3Q78OwWD9Kwxzd6l2&#038;deepLinkEmbedCode=k3aGg5NDqVHY8uQ3Q78OwWD9Kwxzd6l2&#038;width=600&#038;height=360\"><\/script><br \/>\nSPANISH FORK \u2014 In a cloud of color that in 2011 made national headlines, the Hare Krishnas celebrated on Saturday and Sunday the annual Holi Fest, commonly known as the Festival of Colors.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands gathered at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Lotus Temple in Spanish Fork as bands led the crowd in the Maha Mantra: &#8220;Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare. Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As it is celebrated at the Lotus Temple, it is meant to be a celebration of shared life \u2014 neither religious or secular; it is a gathering of people united in their desire to celebrate the coming of spring.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands gathered on a hill on the east side of the temple. Traditionally the majority of revelers have been BYU students, but as the festival has grown in popularity, it has seen a large increase in visitors from other colleges and even from other states.<\/p>\n<p>The festival was celebrated at the temple with two days of brightly colored, organic powder, mantra and music. Every two hours saw a unified &#8220;color throwing,&#8221; where brightly colored chalk is thrown into the air in a tradition dating back thousands of years in India.<\/p>\n<p>Revelers were reminded that the ceremony was a testimony &#8220;to the fact that God loves variety&#8221; \u2014 regardless of which God they served.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No two of us are the same, just as we are now all different hues of orange and yellow, blue and green,&#8221; the announcer said &#8220;We&#8217;re all in this together.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SS-2012-03-26_19.58.47.jpg\"\/><strong>By Caru Das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe colors come from the emergence of spring after the stark bleakness of winter. Everything bursts forth in colors and fragrance and so that\u2019s emulated through the festival,\u201d said Charu Das, the founder of the Lotus Temple<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}