A brewery in Australia has outraged Hindus after depicting the deities Ganesh and Lakshmi on bottles of alcoholic ginger beer.
An international Hindu organisation, Universal Society of Hindus, called for the labels to be removed, saying the deities should not “be used in selling beer for mercantile greed”.
“It is not acceptable,” Rajan Zed, the president of the organisation, which is based in the United States, told Fairfax Media.
“Lord Ganesh and Goddess Lakshmi are highly revered in Hinduism and they were meant to be worshipped in temples or home shrines and not to be used in selling beer for mercantile greed Many people in India are upset too.”
The Indian Australian Association’s New South Wales branch said the bottles were “disgusting” and “cheapened” the Hindu religion. The group has threatened to take legal action against the brewery, the Brookvale Union Brewery. Full story...
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An international Hindu organisation, Universal Society of Hindus, called for the labels to be removed, saying the deities should not “be used in selling beer for mercantile greed”.
“It is not acceptable,” Rajan Zed, the president of the organisation, which is based in the United States, told Fairfax Media.
“Lord Ganesh and Goddess Lakshmi are highly revered in Hinduism and they were meant to be worshipped in temples or home shrines and not to be used in selling beer for mercantile greed Many people in India are upset too.”
The Indian Australian Association’s New South Wales branch said the bottles were “disgusting” and “cheapened” the Hindu religion. The group has threatened to take legal action against the brewery, the Brookvale Union Brewery. Full story...
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