{"id":60176,"date":"2016-10-28T15:23:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T22:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=60176"},"modified":"2016-10-28T15:23:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T22:23:03","slug":"deepavali-is-a-meatless-festival-but-leading-hotels-in-sri-lanka-offer-meat-distorting-the-purity-of-the-occasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/10\/28\/deepavali-is-a-meatless-festival-but-leading-hotels-in-sri-lanka-offer-meat-distorting-the-purity-of-the-occasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Deepavali is a meatless festival but leading Hotels in Sri Lanka offer meat distorting the purity of the occasion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA) Colombo Chapter, Sri Lanka<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Deepavali (or Diwali) is a national holiday in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Guyana and many other countries. The festival signifies the triumph of good over evil.<\/p>\n

It is one of the most important festivals of the year and is celebrated in families by performing traditional activities together in their homes. Diwali involves the lighting of small clay lamps filled with oil to signify the triumph of good over evil. Celebrants wear new clothes through the festival and share sweets and snacks with family members and friends. Diwali is the most popular festival in India. The whole country is lit up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Indian tradition is the consumption of a delicious traditional vegetarian dinner to mark Deepavali. It is a meatless occasion.\u00a0 The food is vegetarian, as nonviolence (ahimsa) is a principle of major Indian religions and by not killing an animal to make the meal, it is considered pure.<\/p>\n

Yet leading Hotels in Sri Lanka regardless of the Hindu tradition brazenly offer non \u2013 vegetarian dishes as Deepavali fare. This is outrageous conduct.\u00a0 Local newspapers are unwilling to point out the misrepresentation and falsification.<\/p>\n

It can happen to Vesak also if leading hotels are not challenged on matters of this nature by followers of the Eastern Dharmic Religions i.e. Buddhists, Hindus,Jains.<\/p>\n

Celebrate Deepavali ( with meat ) at Chutneys, Cinnamon Grand<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.ft.lk\/article\/576514\/Celebrate-Deepavali-at-Chutneys–Cinnamon-Grand<\/a><\/p>\n

Honouring the traditions of the \u2018festival of lights\u2019 celebrated by Hindu\u2019s around the world, the city hotel Cinnamon Grand is laying out an extensive buffet featuring customary Deepavali food and delicious South Indian cuisine at Chutneys, on 29 October from 7.00 p.m to 11.00 p.m<\/p>\n

The special menu will include vegetarian and non-vegetarian fare.<\/p>\n

Speciality dishes include kodi mirchi (chicken with chilli flakes), nandu melagu masala (whole crab cooked in pepper masala), kozhi mappas (chicken with potato curry), mavidikai royyala pulusu (prawn with raw mango curry), mutton sukka (mutton saut\u00e9ed with onion, pepper and chilli spices) from the non-vegetarian section.<\/p>\n

Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA)<\/p>\n

Colombo Chapter, Sri Lanka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA) Colombo Chapter, Sri Lanka \u00a0Deepavali (or Diwali) is a national holiday in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Guyana and many other countries. The festival signifies the triumph of good over evil. It is one of the most important festivals of the year and is celebrated in families by performing traditional activities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}