{"id":252606,"date":"2026-07-26T23:10:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252606\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T23:10:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:10:53","slug":"allentown-celebrates-indian-culture-traditions-at-9th-annual-india-heritage-day-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252606\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown celebrates Indian culture, traditions at 9th annual India Heritage Day | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; People gathered in Allentown Sunday afternoon to celebrate Indian culture and heritage.<\/p>\n<p>The ninth annual India Heritage Day was held at the city&#8217;s Arts Park.<\/p>\n<p>There were live cultural performances, handmade art, and activities for kids.<\/p>\n<p>People also learned Indian dancing, and chowed down on Indian cuisine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our Lehigh Valley is so accepting of beauty, of art, and culture from different creations,&#8221; said\u00a0Vindya Raghavachari,\u00a0Executive Director of Saara Arts. &#8220;It&#8217;s very heartwarming to know that people are interested in learning about the beauty of India.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s theme was &#8220;Weaving Cultures Together.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; People gathered in Allentown Sunday afternoon to celebrate Indian culture and heritage. The ninth annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391],"class_list":["post-252606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}