Beer advertisement with beer bottles placed in a rangoli.
There is a new controversy reported in The New Straits Times Online.
KUALA LUMPUR: MIC Youth demands an apology from Indian daily Tamil Nanban and a beer company for an insensitive Deepavali advertisement that appeared in the newspaper yesterday.They also lodged a police report against the newspaper and the Skol beer company claiming it was insulting to the Indian community.
Its secretary, C. Shivarraj, said the advertisement by Skol printed on page 5 could lead to misperception on the Indian community as well as convey a wrong message to Indian youth.
"They are insulting the Hindus' Rangoli kolam by putting the beer bottles in the middle and stating that the Deepavali celebration will be more enjoyable with Skol beer," said Shivarraj at the Sentul police station here yesterday.
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shammi
Mon, 2008-10-20 03:45
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art is fine, but if they are using the traditional symbolic representation then it is bad