{"id":4523,"date":"2025-10-03T03:38:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baniupdatenews.com\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2025-10-03T03:38:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:38:37","slug":"watch-kulasekarapattinam-dasara-a-festival-of-faith-trance-and-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baniupdatenews.com\/?p=4523","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Kulasekarapattinam Dasara: a festival of faith, trance and transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the coastal town of Kulasekarapattinam transforms into a stage of devotion during Dasara. Thousands of devotees arrive in vibrant costumes, embodying gods, demons, and epic characters, as the beats of naiyandi melam echo through the night.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bEvery year, the coastal town of Kulasekarapattinam transforms into a stage of devotion during Dasara. Thousands of devotees arrive in vibrant costumes, embodying gods, demons, and epic characters, as the beats of naiyandi melam echo through the night.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the coastal town of Kulasekarapattinam transforms into a stage of devotion during Dasara. Thousands of devotees arrive in vibrant costumes, embodying gods, demons, and epic characters, as the beats of naiyandi melam echo through the night. \u200bEvery year, the coastal town of Kulasekarapattinam transforms into a stage of devotion during Dasara. Thousands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baniupdatenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baniupdatenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baniupdatenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baniupdatenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baniupdatenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baniupdatenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baniupdatenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baniupdatenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baniupdatenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baniupdatenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}