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LONDON, ENGLAND, May 30, 2005: The portrayal of Hindus, and Hindu women in particular, in the British and Western media recently offended thousands of adherents of the religion, a rights group claimed today. Hindu Human Rights claimed that it has been flooded with verbal, written and electronic complaints regarding the matter. “While complaints are quite common, what makes the current sense of outrage peculiar is that the vast majority of complaints we have received are from Hindu women born and brought up in the West,” they stated in a media release. The group identify the BBC as the chief culprit with its new three-episode program Meera Syal’s “Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee” (website: here) which, according to them, once again showed BBC’s inability to provide a positive portrayal of Hindus in Britain. “Containing a series of cheap and insulting digs at Hindus, this program continues the tradition of the Western media’s denigration of Hinduism and Hindu culture,” the press release read. “In addition to the ridiculing of the Hindu religion, there is the worrying aspect of how this program reinforces deeply ingrained stereotypes about Hindus.” One program started off with a stereotypical scene of “progressive Hindu woman” being amorous. The character later insults a much esteemed Hindu deity, they complained. “We also wonder why was goddess Kali Mata, revered by millions, is represented as being equivalent to evil in this program?” HHR asked. “What was the point of the remark about Sita if you cannot be bothered to actually give an accurate account of its Dharmic significance?”

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