{"id":8556,"date":"2007-11-12T16:45:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T16:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/11\/12\/big-b-gets-in-the-diwali-mood-at-oxfam\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T16:45:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T16:45:12","slug":"big-b-gets-in-the-diwali-mood-at-oxfam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2007\/11\/12\/big-b-gets-in-the-diwali-mood-at-oxfam\/","title":{"rendered":"Big B gets in the Diwali mood at Oxfam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Bollywood legend unwraps for Oxfam this Diwali<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"262\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/AmitabhBachchanOxfam180x232.jpg\"\/>BOLLYWOOD actor Amitabh Bachchan has donated a fabulous selection of clothes from his personal wardrobe to Oxfam to celebrate Diwali.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The items, which will be sold online in December, will form part of the charity\u2019s Oxfam Unwrapped project\u00a0which will help raise funds for some of the world\u2019s poorest communities. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Bollywood legend was inspired to donate around 50 items of clothing, including embroidered shirts, suits and jackets to Oxfam after visiting an Oxfam shop in London earlier this year. Oxfam is hoping to raise money from the sale of his items in order to fund the work that the organisation does worldwide, which so inspired Amitabh to make the donation in the first place.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMr Bachchan was moved by Oxfam\u2019s innovative ways of tackling poverty and said: \u201cI urge everyone to come forward and contribute very generously to this noble cause.\u201d<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nDiwali is traditionally a time for thinking of those in need \u2013 and of getting rid of old clothes and buying new ones and Oxfam is hoping that Mr Bachchan\u2019s donation will inspire many Hindu, Jains and Sikhs to donate their clothes to their local Oxfam shops and buy fun Diwali gifts from it\u2019s Unwrapped catalogue.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPushpanath Krishnamurthy from Oxfam said: <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cIt is a huge honour for Oxfam to have been given these donations by Amitabh Bachchan, and this generosity underlines why he has maintained such enormous popularity for more than 30 years. By donating his clothes Big B is helping Oxfam to make a huge difference in tacking poverty, suffering and injustice around the world. We can all do the same at Diwali, and by buying Diwali gifts from Oxfam Unwrapped too, we can bring the light of hope to even more people.\u201d<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe clothes will be exhibited in Oxfam shops so the public has a chance to see first hand the items the Bollywood legend has donated. They will then be sold in an online auction in the build up to an online auction at the beginning of next month.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bollywood legend unwraps for Oxfam this Diwali BOLLYWOOD actor Amitabh Bachchan has donated a fabulous selection of clothes from his personal wardrobe to Oxfam to celebrate Diwali. &#13; The items, which will be sold online in December, will form part of the charity\u2019s Oxfam Unwrapped project\u00a0which will help raise funds for some of the world\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}