{"id":9400,"date":"2022-10-05T11:15:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T05:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9400"},"modified":"2025-03-29T13:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T07:35:55","slug":"garba-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/garba-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Garba Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Garba is a dance form native to the Indian state of Gujarat, performed in October to honour the Hindu Deity of Divinity, Goddess Durga<\/li>\n<li>It is a joyful style of dance, based on a circular pattern and characterized by a sweeping action from side to side.<\/li>\n<li>Garba performances often include singing and a musical accompaniment traditionally provided by dhol (double-headed drum) and the similar but smaller dholak; hand clapping; and assorted metallic idiophones, such as cymbals.<\/li>\n<li>Garba dances celebrate fertility, honour womanhood, and pay respect to any of an array of mother goddesses.<\/li>\n<li>In Gujarat the dances customarily mark a girl\u2019s first menstrual cycle and, later, her imminent marriage. Garba dancing also takes place during the nine-day Navratri festival.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1865080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garba is a Gujarati folk dance celebrated in Navratri, a celebration lasting nine nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}