{"id":660144,"date":"2024-01-23T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T04:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/?p=660144"},"modified":"2024-01-23T16:56:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T20:56:49","slug":"rajan-zed-conferred-global-hindu-statesman-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/660144\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajan Zed conferred \u201cGlobal Hindu Statesman Award\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_660146\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-660146\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-660146 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Rajan-Zed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"324\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-660146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rajan Zed being welcomed at Jyoti B. Ed. College, Fazilka.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rajan Zed, distinguished Hindu leader based in USA, has been bestowed with \u201cGlobal Hindu Statesman Award\u201d by Jyoti B.Ed. College, a premier teacher training institute in southwestern Punjab (India).<\/p>\n<p>Presented to Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, during his visit to this College in Fazilka, citation on the Award said: for being the voice of Hindus worldwide, and bravely taking up many Hindu issues in various countries.<\/p>\n<p>Citation further noted: for reading Hindu prayers in the United States Senate and US House-of-Representatives in Washington DC, and 292 other legislative bodies all over USA.<\/p>\n<p>For efforts at providing worldwide Hindu identity &amp; enhancing understanding of Hinduism; citation added.<\/p>\n<p>This citation was signed by President Surinder Kumar Thakral, Secretary Roshan Lal Thakkar, and Principal Anita Arora of Jyoti B.Ed. College; whose Mission includes: \u201cTo train the students as socially sensitive, responsible &amp; professionally skilled teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rajan Zed, a global Hindu and interfaith leader, has been bestowed with the World Interfaith Leader Award. Zed is Senior Fellow and Religious Advisor to Foundation for Religious Diplomacy,\u00a0on the Advisory Board of The Interfaith Peace Project, etc. He has been panelist for \u201cOn Faith\u201d, a prestigious interactive conversation on religion produced by The Washington Post; and produces a weekly multi-faith panel \u201cFaith Forum\u201d in a Gannett publication since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Hinduism, oldest and third largest religion of the world, has about 1.2 billion adherents and moksh (liberation) is its ultimate goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajan Zed, distinguished Hindu leader based in USA, has been bestowed with \u201cGlobal Hindu Statesman Award\u201d by Jyoti B.Ed. College, a premier teacher training institute in southwestern Punjab (India). Presented to Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, during his visit to this College in Fazilka, citation on the Award said: for being the voice of Hindus worldwide, and bravely taking up many Hindu issues in various countries. Citation further noted: for reading Hindu prayers in the United States Senate and US House-of-Representatives in Washington DC, and 292&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":660146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660147,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660144\/revisions\/660147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}