{"id":40897,"date":"2022-01-21T16:01:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T07:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/21\/nestle-withdraws-hindu-kitkat-range-in-india-over-accusations-of-disrespect"},"modified":"2022-01-21T16:01:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T07:01:05","slug":"nestle-withdraws-hindu-kitkat-range-in-india-over-accusations-of-disrespect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40897","title":{"rendered":"Nestle withdraws Hindu KitKat range in India over accusations of disrespect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people expressed outrage that wrappers, featuring Hindu gods, could be thrown in bins or trodden on<\/p>\n<p>Nestle has withdrawn a special range of KitKats in India which featured images of sacred Hindu deities on the wrapper, after accusations of hurting religious sentiments.<\/p>\n<p>The limited range of the well-known chocolate bar had been launched as part of the global \u201cKitKat travel breaks\u201d range, where photos of artwork by local artisans were printed on the wrappers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/21\/nestle-withdraws-hindu-kitkat-range-in-india-over-accusations-of-disrespect\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people expressed outrage that wrappers, featuring Hindu gods, could be thrown in bins or trodden onNestle has withdrawn a special range of KitKats in India which featured images of sacred Hindu deities on the wrapper, after accusations of hurting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"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":[6,2502,311,383,516,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-chocolate","category-food","category-food-drink-industry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40897","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\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40900,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40897\/revisions\/40900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}