{"id":681,"date":"2007-11-05T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/11\/05\/boycott-or-show-protest-at-national-deepavali-celebration\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T16:30:09","slug":"boycott-or-show-protest-at-national-deepavali-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/11\/05\/boycott-or-show-protest-at-national-deepavali-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"boycott or show protest at national deepavali celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>at first, i was thinking that those involved may call for a boycott, and indeed, SMSes was being sent around asking to boycott all deepavali celebrations organised by govt as a sign of protest. i even received 3 till today. <\/p>\n<p>this seemed like a good idea at the beginning. but the last two days, something crossed my mind. what if the indian community used this kind of events to show protest by ATTENDING rather than staying away. go and enjoy the food, shake hand with the VIPs and tell them how much you are unhappy with the temple demolition, or whatever it is you are unhappy about. bring all your family members, organise buses and vans..same like when you plan to attend THR Raaga concert or football matches. <\/p>\n<p>those interested can even prepared standard caps, t-shirts or button badges to be worn &#8211; with words like &quot;selamatkan rakyat india&quot; or &quot;stop temple demolition&quot; or &quot;no more discrimination&quot; or other such clever creative flavors, which can be easily understood by all those who are present. Hmm..that means english right? <\/p>\n<p>Just a thought. I&#39;ll be back on Tuesday evening, so hope to see your replies then.<\/p>\n<p>By the way National Deepavali celebration is on 11 November as mentioned by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernama.com\/bernama\/v3\/news.php?id=293724\"> Bernama<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><b> \t\t<\/b><\/p>\n<p> \t\t KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 1 (Bernama) &#8212; The national-level Deepavali Open House will be held on Nov 11 at the KL Sentral parking space in Brickfields here. Culture, Art and Heritage Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said the event would exhibit the unique aspect of the Indian community in Malaysia. The public, including tourists, would be able to see the food, clothes, traditional games and decoration of the Indian community in this country. There would also be a &quot;kolum&quot;-making contest (contest to decorate floors), dances and traditional Indian games like kabaddi, he told reporters at his office here today. Rais said the Open House, to be held from 2pm until 6pm, would be people-friendly and provide equal treatment to everyone.Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is scheduled to open the function. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people are expected to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Adios!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at first, i was thinking that those involved may call for a boycott, and indeed, SMSes was being sent around asking to boycott all deepavali celebrations organised by govt as a sign of protest. i even received 3 till today. this seemed like a good idea at the beginning. but the last two days, something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[112,122,27,275],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-discrimination","tag-najib-tun-razak","tag-protest","tag-temples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}