{"id":34331,"date":"2020-12-02T04:53:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T04:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=34331"},"modified":"2020-12-02T04:53:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T04:53:40","slug":"the-journey-of-annapurna-idol-from-varanasi-to-canada-and-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/the-journey-of-annapurna-idol-from-varanasi-to-canada-and-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The journey of Annapurna idol from Varanasi to Canada and back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the November 29 episode of Mann Ki Baat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that an ancient idol of the goddess Annapurna, stolen from India about a century ago, is being brought back from Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This idol was stolen from a temple of Varanasi and smuggled out of the country around 100 years ago somewhere around 1913.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Annapurna, also spelt Annapoorna, is the goddess of food. The 18th-century idol, carved in the Benares style, is part of the University of Regina, Canada\u2019s collection at the MacKenzie Art Gallery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few weeks ago, Union Culture Minister Prahlad Patel handed over 13th-century bronze idols of Lord Rama, Lakshmana and goddess Sita, which were repatriated from the UK recently, to the Tamil Nadu government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between 2014 and 2020, the government has been able to retrieve 40 antiquities from various countries; between 1976 and 2014, as per ASI records, 13 antique pieces had been repatriated to India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the November 29 episode of Mann Ki Baat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that an ancient idol of the goddess Annapurna, stolen from India about a century ago, is being brought back from Canada. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points This idol was stolen from a temple of Varanasi and smuggled out of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":34332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1364],"tags":[71],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-34331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2020","tag-art-culture-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34333,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34331\/revisions\/34333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34331"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=34331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}