{"id":9263,"date":"2010-07-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/07\/12\/godly-fashion-for-indian-youth\/"},"modified":"2010-07-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T12:00:00","slug":"godly-fashion-for-indian-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/07\/12\/godly-fashion-for-indian-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Godly Fashion for Indian Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/06\/12\/AR2010061203796.html?referrer=emailarticle\">www.washingtonpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 13, 2010: Nestled between the wedding sari boutiques and hipster jean shops, there&#8217;s a store in the city&#8217;s most popular shopping mall that&#8217;s playing with the Gods. The fashion, art and design store has cool pillows depicting a Sri Saraswati, the Hindu Goddess of knowledge, music and the creative arts. She&#8217;s lounging on her pink lotus while swans float nearby and smaller versions of her likeness play the flute, drums and sitar.<\/p>\n<p>There are retro journals, too, each featuring a particular God or Goddess and a cheeky back story about the deity&#8217;s personality and dramas. &#8220;Ganesha is a foodie, and is crazy about ladoos [Indian sweets],&#8221; one says of the elephant-headed Hindu God.<\/p>\n<p>Not all that long ago, that kind of informality about Hinduism&#8217;s Deities might have caused riots in the streets. Krishna on a mouse pad? Hanuman on a drink coaster? Unimaginable a few years back. But today they are just a (mostly) accepted sign of how young, urban Indians are changing the way they view themselves and their society. Market experts say it&#8217;s also a sign of how India, an increasingly affluent and globalized society, is able to see itself through the eyes of the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Young India is imagining what it can be. And it sees an abundance of inspiration in our culture, our religion, our streets,&#8221; said Hemant Dongre. &#8220;The economy is opening up. This has inspired a whole generation of young Indians to be creative, break mental barriers and have fun with ideas and commerce,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.washingtonpost.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 13, 2010: Nestled between the wedding sari boutiques and hipster jean shops, there&#8217;s a,&#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-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263","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=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}