{"id":11734,"date":"2006-08-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/08\/26\/in-india-a-cafe-named-hitler-s-cross-draws-fire\/"},"modified":"2006-08-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T12:00:00","slug":"in-india-a-cafe-named-hitler-s-cross-draws-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/08\/26\/in-india-a-cafe-named-hitler-s-cross-draws-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"In India, A Cafe Named Hitler&#8217;s Cross Draws Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2006\/08\/24\/sports\/fuhrer.php\">www.iht.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">MUMBAI, INDIA, August 24, 2006: Puneet Sabhlok, 23 years old and a novice restaurateur, says he wanted a catchy cafe name to sell his $3 to $4 plates of crostini tonno, pear and ricotta salad and pannacotta. So he went with &#8220;Hitler&#8217;s Cross.&#8221; He put a swastika in the logo. &#8220;Hitler is a catchy name. Everyone knows Hitler,&#8221; he explained in an interview. The cafe opened this week in a remote suburb of Mumbai. At first, business was brisk. But as word spread, revulsion followed. Before long, India&#8217;s Jews, joined by diplomats from Israel and Germany and the Anti-Defamation League in New York, were working to shut the place down. Abraham Foxman, the U.S. Anti-Defamation League&#8217;s national director, issued a statement saying the restaurant &#8220;denigrates the memory of the victims and does a dangerous disservice to the Mumbai community by downplaying the horrors of the Holocaust.&#8221; On Thursday, after meeting with a Jewish community leader here, Sabhlok agreed to re-christen the restaurant. &#8220;I never wanted to promote Hitler,&#8221; Sabhlok said. &#8220;I just wanted to promote my restaurant.&#8221; The episode was treated in the local media as a cheap publicity stunt.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.iht.com MUMBAI, INDIA, August 24, 2006: Puneet Sabhlok, 23 years old and a novice restaurateur, says he wanted a catchy,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}