{"id":514,"date":"2001-02-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-02-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/02\/17\/2001-02-17-tirade-against-valentine-s-day\/"},"modified":"2001-02-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-02-17T12:00:00","slug":"2001-02-17-tirade-against-valentine-s-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/02\/17\/2001-02-17-tirade-against-valentine-s-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Tirade Against Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Times of India and Hindustan Times Reports<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 13, 2001: A 100-strong mob ransacked a shop selling Valentine&#8217;s Day cards in east Delhi, smashing glass windows and burning the cards. The attack was one of many at various places in the country following a call by the Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray not to celebrate &#8220;this shameless festival that is totally contrary to Indian culture.&#8221; In Lucknow, a handful of activists of the Hindu Jagaran Manch forced gift shops selling Valentine&#8217;s Day cards to shut down. In Kanpur, several shops selling Valentine&#8217;s day cards were destroyed. It was in Mumbai that the Shiv Sena activists had a field day, destroying several heart shaped arches and gateways built for the occasion by shops and hotels across Mumbai. They also had a go at &#8216;Madness,&#8217; a popular disco in suburban Mumbai and the Hallmark&#8217;s outlet at the Crossroads mall. Police seemed to be looking the other way, though later made some token arrests. They don&#8217;t want any major law-and-order trouble on the eve of the Indian Navy&#8217;s first international fleet review beginning Thursday. In satellite townships of Kalyan, Dombivli and Thane several card shops closed their shutters, calling off their promotionals as a preventive measure.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Times of India and Hindustan Times Reports NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 13, 2001: A 100-strong mob ransacked a shop,&#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-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}