{"id":316103,"date":"2019-10-26T12:54:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T12:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316103"},"modified":"2019-10-26T12:54:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T12:54:37","slug":"president-kovind-vice-president-naidu-greet-nation-on-eve-of-deepawali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-kovind-vice-president-naidu-greet-nation-on-eve-of-deepawali\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kovind, Vice President Naidu greet Nation on eve of Deepawali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-314577 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kovind-naidu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/kovind-naidu.jpg 423w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/kovind-naidu-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/kovind-naidu-356x364.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/kovind-naidu-412x420.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/>President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu greeted nation on the eve of Deepawali.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In his message, the President said, \u201cOn the auspicious occasion of Deepawali, I convey greetings and best wishes to all my fellow citizens in India and abroad.\u00a0Deepawali marks the triumph of hope over despair, good over evil and light over darkness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cLet us on this day try to bring happiness in the lives of those who are less fortunate and needy by lighting the lamp of love, care and sharing,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMay this festival of lights radiate happiness, peace and prosperity in every home across the country,\u201d Kovind added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Naidu said that this \u2018festival of lights\u2019 is the celebration of perpetual power of the good and its capability to conquer all evil. It tells us that truth and virtue alone triumph in the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDeepawali is heralded as one of the most significant festivals of India and is celebrated across the country and throughout the\u00a0world,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe \u2018festival of lights\u2019 inspires us to move from darkness towards light, from ignorance towards wisdom and from melancholy towards bliss,\u201d Naidu added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said, \u201cDeepawali is the harbinger of hope and beckons to us to take the initiative to light a lamp rather than cursing the darkness. It is also a celebration of the light of humanity that burns within each and every one of us that is capable of showing us the path of righteousness even at the darkest of the times. Deepawali urges us to keep this light burning bright so that we may continue to endeavor to build a better, more humane, peaceful and compassionate world. May this festival bring harmony, prosperity and happiness in our lives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu greeted nation on the eve of Deepawali.\u00a0 In his message, the President said, \u201cOn the auspicious occasion of Deepawali, I convey greetings and best wishes to all my fellow citizens in India and abroad.\u00a0Deepawali marks the triumph of hope over despair, good over evil and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11925,10304,1452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316105,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316103\/revisions\/316105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}