French footwear retailer Minelli faces ire of Hindu rights group for depicting Gods on shoes
27 May '05
1 min read
the front line england based hindu human rights organisation (hhro) has decried the use hindu gods pictured on shoes sold by french retailer minelli.
such dipiction "shows how trivialisation of hinduism leads directly and indirectly to abuse of hindus, all over the world," the hhro website mentions.
minelli had selected picture of lord rama, venerated by millions of hindus throughout the world on their designer shoes.
earlier, roberto cavali had depicted hindu gods and goddesses on his designer fashion underwear while cafepress.com had imprinted hindu gods and goddeses on lingeries and thongs.
in the latters case, american hindu association spearheaded the campaign for withdrawl of disputed company products, and which met with success.
in both the cases, parties involved buckled under hindu pressure group demands, withdrawing those products.
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