{"id":6220,"date":"2012-12-13T07:29:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T07:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=6220"},"modified":"2015-05-07T07:38:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T07:38:18","slug":"dancing-and-singing-performances-ushered-deepavali-celebrations-at-ukm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2012\/december-2012\/dancing-and-singing-performances-ushered-deepavali-celebrations-at-ukm\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing And Singing Performances Ushered Deepavali Celebrations At UKM"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2012%2Fdecember-2012%2Fdancing-and-singing-performances-ushered-deepavali-celebrations-at-ukm%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=6220&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"midblock\">\n<div class=\"insidem\">\n<div class=\"news_item_a\">\n<div class=\"newsitem_tools\">\n<div class=\"newsitem_info\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"createdate\">THURSDAY, 13 DECEMBER 2012 00:00<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"buttonheading\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2012\/deepavali1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"buttonheading\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By\u00a0Nurul Haziqah Abdul Halim<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsitem_text\">\n<div class=\"news_item_article\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Pix by Izwan Azman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BANGI, 6 Dec 2012 &#8211; Current and former students of The National University of Malaysia (UKM) students liven up the university\u2019s Deepavali Celebration at the Banquet Room in the Chancellery here this afternoon with colourful dancing and singing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kicking off the ceremony was the lighting of an oil lamp, \u2018the Kuthuvilaku\u2019 by both the Chairman of the University Board of Directors, Prof Emeritus Dato\u2019 Dr M Zawawi Ismail and Vice-Chancellor, Prof Tan Sri Dato\u2019 Wira Dr Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was also attended by two Deputy Vice-Chancellors, Prof Ir Dr Othman A. Karim (Students\u00a0&amp; Alumni Affairs) and Prof Dato&#8217; Dr Saran Kaur Gill (Industry &amp; Community Partnerships).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seven artistic performances were rendered highlighting the intricate detail and elegance of traditional Indian dances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A recent graduate in Linguistics Studies from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Jamuna Rani a\/p Mogan performed two classical dances while third year Mass Communication student from Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FSSK), Ratchurathan a\/l Rawe Shanggan dance the classical \u201cBharathanatyam\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A third year English Literature major Abigail Lucas sang \u2018a cappella\u2019 style song with Qurratu Izyan Nadzarein Shah a student from FSSK sanging Adele\u2019s <em>\u201cSomeone Like You\u201d<\/em> while first year student Muhammad Rizan Mohd Hanifah from the Faculty of Information Science and Technology (FIST) performed two songs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Muhammad Rizan then joined Suntharesan a\/l Bacakrishnan, a third year student from FSSK, Lovina a\/p Yogarajan from the Faculty of Economics and Management (FEP) and Laviania a\/p Pathmanathan from the Faculty of Law (FUU) for the \u201cKolaattam\u201d dance, an Indian folk dance which uses sticks.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2012\/deepavali2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2012\/deepavali3.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2012\/deepavali4.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"leftblock\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THURSDAY, 13 DECEMBER 2012 00:00 By\u00a0Nurul Haziqah Abdul Halim Pix by Izwan Azman BANGI, 6 Dec 2012 &#8211; Current and<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2012\/december-2012\/dancing-and-singing-performances-ushered-deepavali-celebrations-at-ukm\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6224,"parent":1308,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6220","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6226,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6220\/revisions\/6226"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}