{"id":2357,"date":"2002-09-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/09\/03\/2002-09-03-mumbai-temple-enforces-dress-code\/"},"modified":"2002-09-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-03T12:00:00","slug":"2002-09-03-mumbai-temple-enforces-dress-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/09\/03\/2002-09-03-mumbai-temple-enforces-dress-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai Temple Enforces Dress Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/midday.chalomumbai.com\/07-18-2002\/city\/07-18-2002now.txt.htm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>MUMBAI, INDIA July 18, 2002: The next time you visit the Siddhivinayak (Ganesha) temple, Prabhadevi, and the temple guard finds your dress inappropriate for the holy environs, you could be given a lesson in modest dressing and the temple guard will advise you not to wear such clothes the next time you visit there. A guard says, &#8220;Many of them could be first-time visitors unaware of the rules. We do not stop them from entering, but we tell them gently not to wear such dresses the next time they are here.&#8221; The temple administration has put up a board of requests in Marathi at one of the gates. The temple, consecrated in 1801, is the city&#8217;s most popular, with over two hundred thousand devotees on Tuesdays. Lately, it has also become popular with the young, especially college students who seek Ganesha&#8217;s blessings for success in exams. Commenting on the restrictions on clothing, Hegde says, &#8220;This is a temple, not a picnic spot.&#8221; Sharayu Thakur, chairperson of the managing committee, says that most devotees of Siddhivinayak support the dress code. Goregaon resident Aparna Joshi says, &#8220;This is a sacred place. The authorities have done right by issuing instructions on dress. Limits of decency must be maintained.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE MUMBAI, INDIA July 18, 2002: The next time you visit the Siddhivinayak (Ganesha) temple, Prabhadevi, and the,&#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-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","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=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}