Australian Advertising Watchdog Dismisses Pleas to Ban a Commercial that Shows Ganesha Eating Meat
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AUSTRALIA, September 20, 2017 (Scroll In): The Advertising Standards Bureau in Australia has dismissed complaints filed by Hindu groups against an advertisement that showed Ganesha eating meat, PTI reported on Tuesday. The commercial, released by Meat and Livestock Australia earlier in September, showed Gods worshiped in different religions sitting down for a meal of lamb. The advertising watchdog rejected the claims made by Hindu groups, saying it was ”inclusive” and did not provide ”any one character with less favorable or unfair treatment by virtue of being in the group”.
”The majority of the board considered that the overall tone of the advertisement is light-hearted and humorous,” the board said, according to SBS. ”…The intent is to be inclusive in a manner that promotes a harmonious and multi-faith environment…The depiction of Lord Ganesha…in a scene that might suggest he can eat meat is not less favorable than the manner in which the other religions are also depicted.” On September 11, the Indian High Commission in Canberra had lodged a diplomatic protest with Australia over the advertisement. It had urged Meat and Livestock Australia to withdraw the commercial because many considered it offensive and hurtful towards their religious sentiments. The status of the complaint is currently unknown.
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MUMBAI, INDIA, August 24, 2017 (Lokvani by K. Arvind): Prof. K. Ramasubramanian from IIT, Mumbai, delivered a lecture titled ”Glimpses of Indian Mathematics: Sutra Style to Paragon of Poetry” at MIT on Sunday, August 13, 2017. In this talk, Prof. K. Ramasubramanian offered an illuminating view of Indian Mathematics over the ages, its unique approach based on poetry rather than prose, the need for such an approach, and presented many surprising facts about mathematical results ranging from algebra and trigonometry through calculus, that were discovered in India much before the West.
For example, Fibonacci numbers are described in Bharata’s Natya Shastra. Prof. Ramasubramanian mostly used the work of Pingala (prior to 300 BCE), Bhaskara (12th century CE) and Nityananda (17th century CE), mathematicians from three different periods of history to illustrate his ideas. It was fascinating as well as amusing to learn how complex ideas in Math were taught and transmitted over the millennia via the medium of delightful poetry, in effect giving a musical character to Mathematics.
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