{"id":4013,"date":"2004-03-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/03\/03\/2004-03-03-hinduism-and-india-cool\/"},"modified":"2004-03-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-03T12:00:00","slug":"2004-03-03-hinduism-and-india-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/03\/03\/2004-03-03-hinduism-and-india-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Hinduism And India &#8220;Cool&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/em\/fr\/-\/1\/hi\/programmes\/wtwtgod\/3490394.stm\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>LONDON, ENGLAND, February 29, 2004: Indian youth has a new relationship with religion, according to this BBC report. Bachia Karkaria, The Times of India Associate Editor, writes about contemporary attitudes of faith and in particular Hinduism. God has a new incarnation in India&#8211;cool, user-friendly, results-oriented and upwardly mobile, says this article. Like the sitar, guru shirts and transcendental meditation in the Beatles-era, India Cool has discovered nirvana, yoga, joss-sticks and Vastu Shastra, the Hindu equivalent of Feng Shui, via the West. The computer geek is quite likely to decorate his desktop with stickers of both Garfield and Ganesha, the popular God of auspicious beginnings. The mystic word Om once had an exclusively religious context. But it has acquired a universality, courtesy of Madonna and pop culture. Young Indian men and women sport Hinduism&#8217;s most potent symbol as a fashion accessory. Designer Om pendants dangle from throats and jangle on charm bracelets.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceLONDON, ENGLAND, February 29, 2004: Indian youth has a new relationship with religion, according to this BBC report. Bachia Karkaria,,&#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-4013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013","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=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}