{"id":5115,"date":"2008-03-28T09:29:29","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T14:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5115"},"modified":"2008-03-28T07:33:50","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T12:33:50","slug":"caption_this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/caption_this\/","title":{"rendered":"Caption This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following image was sent to me by email; it comes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/photogallery.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/2860615.cms\">Times of India<\/a>; I don&#8217;t know the artist or the original context in which it was printed:<\/p>\n\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/photogallery.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/2860615.cms\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"okrishna radhillary.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/okrishna radhillary.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"410\" vspace=10 hspace=10 \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>Please provide a caption or title. <s>avoiding the use of the word &#8220;kala.&#8221;<\/s><\/p>\n\n<p>I should acknowledge that at least one conservative Hindu website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindujagruti.org\/news\/4248.html\">has declared<\/a> that they find the above image offensive. Do readers agree?<\/p>\n\n<p>(As I understand it, images of deities in the Hindu tradition are widely appropriated and reinterpreted in the culture. They don&#8217;t have the same &#8220;forbidden&#8221; status that they do in, say, Islam. While I can definitely see how a nude image of a Hindu deity not normally represented as nude might be offensive, I think a comic or satirical gloss on a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radha\">revered story<\/a> from the tradition, as in the image above, isn&#8217;t that uncommon. I am, as always, open to hearing other points of view&#8230;)<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following image was sent to me by email; it comes from the Times of India; I don&#8217;t know the artist or the original context in which it was printed: Please provide a caption or title. avoiding the use of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/caption_this\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}