{"id":137,"date":"2008-01-17T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2008\/01\/how-to-offend-indian-sensibilities-reprise.html"},"modified":"2011-06-30T20:40:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:40:40","slug":"how-to-offend-indian-sensibilities-reprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2008\/01\/how-to-offend-indian-sensibilities-reprise.html","title":{"rendered":"How to offend Indian sensibilities (reprise)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard ? Muslim fundies have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mid-day.com\/web\/guest\/news\/mumbai\/article?_EXT_5_articleId=906330&amp;_EXT_5_groupId=14\">offended yet again<\/a> ! From Mid-day :<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The All India Ulema Council (AIUC), an umbrella organisation of Muslims, is \u2018shocked\u2019 that the Godrejs gave a warm welcome to Salman Rushdie in Mumbai last week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The AIUC has demanded an apology from Godrej chairman Adi Godrej yesterday, failing which they will boycott all Godrej products in India.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yes ! How dare Ms. Godrej possibly invite to a private party, any person who could potentially offend any other person ? Hmm ? Hmmm ?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like a refresher course on the &#8220;art of offending Indian sensibilities&#8221;, do please read my earlier post, <a href=\"http:\/\/reviewroom.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/how-to-offend-indian-sensibilities-101.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11570614-7320232398213436537?l=reviewroom.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard ? Muslim fundies have been offended yet again ! From Mid-day : &#8220;The All India Ulema Council (AIUC), an umbrella organisation of Muslims, is \u2018shocked\u2019 that the Godrejs gave a warm welcome to Salman Rushdie in Mumbai last week.&#8221; . . . . &#8220;The AIUC has demanded an apology from Godrej chairman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-society","category-india","category-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Have you heard ? Muslim fundies have been offended yet again ! From Mid-day : &#8220;The All India Ulema Council (AIUC), an umbrella organisation of Muslims, is \u2018shocked\u2019 that the Godrejs gave a warm welcome to Salman Rushdie in Mumbai last week.&#8221; . . . . &#8220;The AIUC has demanded an apology from Godrej chairman&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}