{"id":341,"date":"2004-09-03T13:08:16","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T18:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=341"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:19","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:19","slug":"pop_cultures_ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/03\/pop_cultures_ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Culture&#8217;s Appropriation of Hindu Icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center> <img src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/fashion.jpg\"> <\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t necessarily think the appropriation by popular culture of Hindu icons is always offensive.  Any deity on a toilet seat, sure that is offensive, a deity on a t-shirt&#8230;I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n\n<p>Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/asia\/magazine\/article\/0,13673,501040906-689493,00.html?cnn=yes\"target=new>Time Magazine (Asia)<\/a> recently published an interesting story on Pop culture&#8217;s appropriation of Hindu icons and how &#8220;the faithful&#8221; is up in arms about it. The article is essentially a listing of some of the more recent examples of this, including Roberto Cavalli&#8217;s ingenious Holy Bikini and undergarments which made a stir earler this summer, and were subsequently removed from the famed British department store, Harrods.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>It&#8217;s been five years since the spirituality-seeking Madonna, dressed in a sari and adorned with a tilaka marking on her forehead, sang a self-composed Sanskrit song at the MTV awards before a backdrop of Hindu god images\u00c2\u2014simultaneously raising the West&#8217;s awareness of Hinduism and incurring the ire of the religion&#8217;s faith police. Things Indian have only gotten trendier since. But as Madonna discovered, cashing in on Hinduism can be a mixed blessing.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>To read the full article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/asia\/magazine\/article\/0,13673,501040906-689493,00.html?cnn=yes\"target=new>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t necessarily think the appropriation by popular culture of Hindu icons is always offensive. Any deity on a toilet seat, sure that is offensive, a deity on a t-shirt&#8230;I don&#8217;t think so. Anyway, Time Magazine (Asia) recently published an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/03\/pop_cultures_ap\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}