{"id":5111,"date":"2005-03-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/03\/11\/2005-03-11-hindus-aren-t-laughing-at-times-of-india-piece-on-lord-siva\/"},"modified":"2005-03-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-11T12:00:00","slug":"2005-03-11-hindus-aren-t-laughing-at-times-of-india-piece-on-lord-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/03\/11\/2005-03-11-hindus-aren-t-laughing-at-times-of-india-piece-on-lord-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindus Aren&#8217;t Laughing at Times Of India Piece on Lord Siva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/1043921.cms\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>LONDON, ENGLAND, March 11, 2005: Anil Bhanot of the Hindu Council UK (abhanot@hinducounciluk.org) is protesting an article which appeared the day before Maha Sivaratri in the Times of India. It is titled &#8220;He&#8217;s hot, he is Indian Idol No 1,&#8221; and is by Bachi Karkaria.<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nIt begins:<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Indra can keep his corner office. The penthouse of the pantheon belongs to Shiva. Its decor bears the imprimatur of a Fortune-favoured designer, and yet, it&#8217;s unmistakably bohemian. Shiva knows the rules to break them; he&#8217;s awesome at shifting the goal posts. <BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n He&#8217;s comfortable with &#8216;if you&#8217;ve got it, flaunt it&#8217;; he can swim with the sharks, and still find place in his heart for the littlest minnow. He wears the suit of divinity lightly. Yes, Mahadev is a maha-dude.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nGo to &#8220;source&#8221; if you want to read the rest and look at the picture of Lord Siva as a rock star.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceLONDON, ENGLAND, March 11, 2005: Anil Bhanot of the Hindu Council UK (abhanot@hinducounciluk.org) is protesting an article which appeared 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-5111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111","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=5111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}