{"id":64390,"date":"2017-02-25T16:03:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T16:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=64390"},"modified":"2017-02-25T16:03:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T16:03:51","slug":"hindus-must-put-tilak-bindi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/hindus-must-put-tilak-bindi\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindus must put Tilak or bindi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In what may spark a fresh controversy, Hindu Samhati president Tapan Ghosh\u00a0 said that Hindu women should wear &#8216;bindi&#8217; and men should sport &#8217;tilak&#8217; on their forehead to avoid incidents like Kansas shooting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I am not much interested about &#8216;tika&#8217; and all but today due to radical Muslims, the atmosphere is volatile. To save oneself from this, one must wear &#8216;tika&#8217; and &#8216;bindi&#8217;. Although terrorism do not belongs to any particular religion, I want Hindus to be safe and secure,&#8221; Ghosh told through media. Ghosh&#8217;s statement comes at the backdrop of Kansas shooting that took place on Friday, claiming the life of an Indian engineer and wounding another.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-64392\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/8888.jpg\" alt=\"Hindus must put Tilak or bindi \" width=\"667\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/8888.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/8888-768x291.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><br \/>\nTwo Indian engineers \u2013 Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani \u2013 were shot in a Kansas bar after the shooter hurled racial slurs at them. Kuchibhotla was killed while Madasani was wounded, along with a 24-year-old man who had tried to apprehend the gunman. The accused, Adam W. Purinton, a Navy Veteran has been charged with premeditated first-degree murder and two counts of attempted premeditated first-degree murder.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-64393\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/aa-Cover-q5vlgouqrhqdlkubjh6987vso0-20170225165537.Medi_.jpeg\" alt=\"Hindus must put Tilak or bindi \" width=\"623\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/aa-Cover-q5vlgouqrhqdlkubjh6987vso0-20170225165537.Medi_.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/aa-Cover-q5vlgouqrhqdlkubjh6987vso0-20170225165537.Medi_-500x280.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/aa-Cover-q5vlgouqrhqdlkubjh6987vso0-20170225165537.Medi_-768x430.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><br \/>\nThe possible hate crime has raised new alarms about a climate of hostility toward foreigners in the United States, where President Donald Trump has made clamping down on immigration a central plank of his &#8220;America first&#8221; agenda. However, the White House has attempted to downplay notions that there was any correlation between the incident and President Donald Trump&#8217;s stance on immigrants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noting that the incident was tragic indeed, White House spokesperson Sean Spicer asserted that it was &#8220;absurd&#8221; to draw parallels between with the President&#8217;s rhetoric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what may spark a fresh controversy, Hindu Samhati president Tapan Ghosh\u00a0 said that Hindu women should wear &#8216;bindi&#8217; and men should sport &#8217;tilak&#8217; on their forehead to avoid incidents like Kansas shooting. &#8220;I am not much interested about &#8216;tika&#8217; and all but today due to radical Muslims, the atmosphere is volatile. To save oneself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[33616,33618,33612,1843,33613,25415,33615,33617,1560,33445,33614,33440,4737],"class_list":["post-64390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-tilak","tag-adam-w-purinton","tag-bindi","tag-donald-trump","tag-hindu-samhati","tag-hindus","tag-hinduwomen","tag-indian-engineers","tag-media","tag-navy-veteran","tag-president-tapan-ghosh","tag-srinivas-kuchibhotla","tag-united-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/888.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}