{"id":23809,"date":"2020-10-15T02:58:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T17:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/14\/tv-advert-showing-hindumuslim-family-withdrawn-after-love-jihad-claim"},"modified":"2020-10-15T02:58:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T17:58:15","slug":"indian-tv-ad-showing-hindu-muslim-couple-pulled-after-rightwing-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23809","title":{"rendered":"Indian TV ad showing Hindu-Muslim couple pulled after rightwing backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Withdrawal of jewellery advert criticised as a concession to extremists<\/p>\n<p>The advertisement featured a Muslim man and his Hindu wife preparing for a Hindu-style baby shower. Its tagline read: \u201cA beautiful confluence of two different religions, traditions and cultures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But on Tuesday, just days after the 45-second advertisement aired, the Tanishq jewellery brand withdrew it from TV channels and its social media platforms following accusations from Hindu nationalists, including members of Narendra Modi\u2019s ruling Bharatiya Janata party.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/14\/tv-advert-showing-hindumuslim-family-withdrawn-after-love-jihad-claim\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Withdrawal of jewellery advert criticised as a concession to extremistsThe advertisement featured a Muslim man and his Hindu wife preparing for a Hindu-style baby shower. Its tagline read: \u201cA beautiful confluence of two different religions, traditions &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[435,516,62,433,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-hinduism","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23810,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23809\/revisions\/23810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}