{"id":1378,"date":"2001-11-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/11\/17\/2001-11-17-hpi-reader-on-theft-of-sita-play\/"},"modified":"2001-11-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-11-17T12:00:00","slug":"2001-11-17-hpi-reader-on-theft-of-sita-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/11\/17\/2001-11-17-hpi-reader-on-theft-of-sita-play\/","title":{"rendered":"HPI Reader on &#8220;Theft of Sita&#8221; Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Hinduism Today<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>OXFORD, ENGLAND, November 17, 2001: &#8220;In my opinion,&#8221; writes A. Khaitan of Oxford University, &#8220;The &#8216;Theft of Sita&#8217; play is nothing more than an attempt to disparage what the Hindu epic, Ramayana, is about. I saw the play tonight (in Oxford) and was utterly disgusted. Far from sticking to the true Ramayana, the play made references to Sita as a prostitute and had inappropriate sexual innuendo tied in throughout. I asked for my money back. The Ramayana should not be used as a literary device for anything, especially considering its sacred value to Hindus and the ease in which others can misinterpret the epic. If the same happened about a Islamic event, people in Oxford would have been up in arms!&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Hinduism Today OXFORD, ENGLAND, November 17, 2001: &#8220;In my opinion,&#8221; writes A. Khaitan of Oxford University, &#8220;The &#8216;Theft of,&#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-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","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=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}