{"id":116516,"date":"2025-11-07T12:26:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=116516"},"modified":"2025-11-07T12:26:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:26:25","slug":"ramayan-in-basingstoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=116516","title":{"rendered":"Ramayan in Basingstoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Radha Mohan Das<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"cmsmasters_img_wrap\">\n  <a\n    class=\"cmsmasters_img_link\"\n    rel=\"ilightbox[cmsmasters_open_post_img_690dd67196b1b]\"\n    title=\"Ramayan in Basingstoke\"\n    href=\"https:\/\/www.krishnatemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cover-web.jpg\"\n  ><br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\"\n      decoding=\"async\"\n      title=\"cover web\"\n      alt=\"Ramayan in Basingstoke\"\n      class=\"wp-post-image\"\n      src=\"https:\/\/www.krishnatemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cover-web-860x575.jpg\"\n      height=\"575\"\n      width=\"860\"\n    \/><br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_post_content entry-content\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n    A beautiful cultural event themed around Diwali was arranged by the devotee<br \/>\n    community in Basingstoke, in collaboration with devotees from Bhaktivedanta<br \/>\n    Manor.\n  <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n    In the arts faculty at Queen Mary\u2019s College in the town, the Bhaktivedanta<br \/>\n    Players\u2019 continued their 40th anniversary celebrations with a special<br \/>\n    version of The Ramayan.\n  <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\"\n      sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\"\n      srcset=\"\n        https:\/\/www.krishnatemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cast-300x159.jpg   300w,\n        https:\/\/www.krishnatemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cast-1024x544.jpg 1024w,\n        https:\/\/www.krishnatemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cast-768x408.jpg   768w,\n        https:\/\/www.krishnatemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cast-580x308.jpg   580w,\n        https:\/\/www.krishnatemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cast-860x457.jpg   860w,\n        https:\/\/www.krishnatemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cast.jpg          1090w\n      \"\n      height=\"414\"\n      width=\"781\"\n      alt=\"\"\n      src=\"https:\/\/www.krishnatemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cast-300x159.jpg\"\n      class=\"wp-image-28430 aligncenter\"\n      decoding=\"async\"\n    \/>\n  <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n    As a prelude, the Ladies\u2019 Ashram lead a soulful kirtan, followed by a talk<br \/>\n    about Diwali by Godruma das.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\"\n      sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\"\n      srcset=\"\n        https:\/\/www.krishnatemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/talk-and-kirtan-300x147.jpg   300w,\n        https:\/\/www.krishnatemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/talk-and-kirtan-1024x501.jpg 1024w,\n        https:\/\/www.krishnatemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/talk-and-kirtan-768x376.jpg   768w,\n        https:\/\/www.krishnatemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/talk-and-kirtan-580x284.jpg   580w,\n        https:\/\/www.krishnatemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/talk-and-kirtan-860x421.jpg   860w,\n        https:\/\/www.krishnatemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/talk-and-kirtan-1160x567.jpg 1160w,\n        https:\/\/www.krishnatemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/talk-and-kirtan.jpg          1200w\n      \"\n      height=\"383\"\n      width=\"781\"\n      alt=\"\"\n      src=\"https:\/\/www.krishnatemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/talk-and-kirtan-300x147.jpg\"\n      class=\"wp-image-28429 aligncenter\"\n      decoding=\"async\"\n    \/>\n  <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n    The audience thoroughly enjoyed the event and the feedback was tremendous.<br \/>\n    Jaya Krisna das recalled: \u201cOne English lady, who had her first experience of<br \/>\n    the culture, felt very enlivened. She expressed her wish to visit<br \/>\n    Bhaktivedanta Manor for more spiritual experiences!\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.krishnatemple.com\/ramayan-in-basingstoke\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\"\n      decoding=\"async\"\n      title=\"cover web\"\n      alt=\"Ramayan in Basingstoke\"\n      class=\"wp-post-image\"\n      src=\"https:\/\/www.krishnatemple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cover-web-860x575.jpg\"\n      height=\"575\"\n      width=\"860\"\n    \/>By Radha Mohan Das A beautiful cultural event themed around Diwali was arranged by the devotee community in Basingstoke, in collaboration with devotees from Bhaktivedanta Manor. In the arts faculty at Queen Mary\u2019s College in the town, the Bhaktivedanta Players\u2019 continued their 40th anniversary celebrations with a special version of The Ramayan. As a prelude,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116516","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=116516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116519,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116516\/revisions\/116519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}