{"id":89637,"date":"2020-01-15T10:08:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T10:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=89637"},"modified":"2020-01-15T10:08:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T10:08:24","slug":"dhanu-jatra-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/dhanu-jatra-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhanu Jatra festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Dhanu Jatra festival, which recently began in Odisha and celebrated as the largest open-air theatre of the world, is based on the mythological story of\u2014<br> (a) Lord Krishna <br> (b) Arjuna<br> (c) Lord Rama<br> (d) Bali the brother of Sugriva<br> Answer:(a)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 31 December, 2019 11-day Dhanu Jatra festival began in Bargarh in western Odisha.<\/li><li>The famous Dhanu Jatra celebrated as the largest open-air theatre of the world and based on the mythological story of Lord Krishna and his demon uncle King Kansa. <\/li><li>Around 3,000 artists of 120 cultural troupes from across the state and from neighboring states will perform at the Raj Durbar, Nanda Durbar, and Rangamahal during the festival. <\/li><li>Dhanu Jatra considered being the world\u2019s largest outdoor theatrical festival that finds a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>History of Dhanu Jatra:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The annual festival came into being in 1947-48 to celebrate Indian\u2019s Independence and to symbolize the victory of good over evil. <\/li><li> Over 70 artists performed in the Dhanu Yatra at Mathura, another 45 artists played different roles at Gopapura during the festival. <\/li><li>The department of Culture of the Government of India accorded the National Festival status to Dhanu Jatra in November 2014<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:-<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsonair.com\/News?title=11-day-long-%E2%80%98Dhanu-Jatra%E2%80%99-begins-at-Bargarh-in-western-Odisha&amp;id=376893\">http:\/\/www.newsonair.com\/News?title=11-day-long-%E2%80%98Dhanu-Jatra%E2%80%99-begins-at-Bargarh-in-western-Odisha&amp;id=376893<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Dhanu Jatra festival, which recently began in Odisha and celebrated as the largest open-air theatre of the world, is based on the mythological story of\u2014 (a) Lord Krishna (b) Arjuna (c) Lord Rama (d) Bali the brother of Sugriva Answer:(a) Related facts: On 31 December, 2019 11-day Dhanu Jatra festival began in Bargarh in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":89638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}