{"id":8631,"date":"2010-01-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/01\/04\/india-tries-to-abolish-necktie-to-save-power\/"},"modified":"2010-01-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T12:00:00","slug":"india-tries-to-abolish-necktie-to-save-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/01\/04\/india-tries-to-abolish-necktie-to-save-power\/","title":{"rendered":"India Tries to Abolish Necktie To Save Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/8434414.stm\">news.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM, December 30, 2009: A group of corporate workers in the Indian city of Mumbai have launched a no-tie campaign to save energy and protect the environment. Campaigners say not wearing a tie will make people feel cooler with less need to use air conditioners so extensively.<\/p>\n<p>Dhiraj Shrinivasan, co-founder of the &#8220;no Tie Campaign,&#8221; says the culture of wearing ties is British and alien to India. &#8220;We should wear clothes that are suitable to Indian climactic conditions like shirts or kurtas [long tunics].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another co-founder of the campaign, Sanjiv Vishwanathan, says that when people wear ties, the temperature is set at a lower degree. &#8220;We just want to plant a seed in their minds, to make them aware of environment-related issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September, Bangladesh ordered government employees to not wear suits and ties to ease the country&#8217;s energy shortage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, December 30, 2009: A group of corporate workers in the Indian city of Mumbai have launched,&#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-8631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631","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=8631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}