Hindu gods on toilet walls in US; See what Ankita did
- IndiaGlitz, [Monday,November 19 2018]
Indian-American activist Ankita Mishra, born and brought up in the US, is in the news for taking up a cause against a pub. Last month, she went to a pub in Bushwick, New York. What she found there shocked her and left her speechless. In the pub, toilet walls were decorated with images of Hindu 'devatas'.
Ankita felt sad and decided to write a letter to the pub. ...No one took even a fraction of that time thinking of how it would make someone like me feel. As I sat on the toilet, I thought “Is it possible that my culture is again being dehumanized and treated like an accessory of white culture, here on Jefferson Street?” Hinduism is an active religion, practiced today. My true desire is to see the bathroom taken down, she wrote.
Writing an apology letter to Ankita, the pub management promised that it would be removing the images from the washroom. I am sorry for not taking the time to fully understand and research the deep history of the culture I was inspired by before using it to decorate. I feel awful that you had to experience this type of cultural disrespect at House of Yes of all places, a founder of the pub wrote in a letter to Ankita.