{"id":14286,"date":"2020-03-16T15:33:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T10:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14286"},"modified":"2020-03-16T15:33:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T10:03:03","slug":"chaitra-jatra-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chaitra-jatra-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaitra Jatra Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The annual Chaitra Jatra festival scheduled to be held in Odisha\u2019s Tara Tarini hill shrine was cancelled as a precautionary measure against COVID-19 infection.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Festival:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Chaitra Jatra is celebrated at Tara Tarini hill shrine in the Hindu month of Chaitra.<\/li><li>Tara Tarini hill shrine is located at Kumari hill on banks of the Rushikulya river.It is a major centre of Shakti worship in Odisha.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong>Indian Navy\u2019s sailboat INSV Tarini was named after Tara Tarini hill shrine.The first Indian all-woman crew had circumnavigated the globe in INSV Tarini.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Other important Festivals of Odisha:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Chhau Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Chhau Festival is celebrated every year by the Bhuiyan tribes in Odisha.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The main attraction of the festival is the performance of Chhau dance by the people of Odisha.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Chhau dance is a semi-classical form of dancing that includes a little bit of martial arts and folk elements.The dance is performed while wearing a mask or chhau that comes from the word chaya which means shadow.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Nuakhai Festival:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Nuakhai is an agricultural festival mainly observed by people of Western Odisha in India.<\/li><li>The farmers offer the first produce of their respective lands to Goddess Samaleswari and then consume it personally.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The annual Chaitra Jatra festival scheduled to be held in Odisha\u2019s Tara Tarini hill shrine was cancelled as a precautionary measure against COVID-19 infection. Facts: About the Festival: Chaitra Jatra is celebrated at Tara Tarini hill shrine in the Hindu month of Chaitra. Tara Tarini hill shrine is located at Kumari hill on banks of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chaitra-jatra-festival\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chaitra Jatra Festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[2075,1918],"class_list":["post-14286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-chaitra-jatra-festival","tag-odisha","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704530546},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}