{"id":2471,"date":"2008-10-19T01:28:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T17:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/10\/19\/mic-youth-complaints-over-kolam-beer-ad\/"},"modified":"2008-10-19T02:24:40","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T18:24:40","slug":"mic-youth-complaints-over-kolam-beer-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/10\/19\/mic-youth-complaints-over-kolam-beer-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"MIC Youth complaints over kolam beer ad"},"content":{"rendered":"

I agree with the demand<\/a> by MIC Youth. What were Nanban editors thinking of when they allowed the advertisement to be published? Which company did the advertisement? The MIC Youth should make formal complaint to the AAAA (if I’m not mistaken).<\/p>\n

MIC Youth demands an apology from Indian daily
\nTamil Nanban and a beer company for an insensitive Deepavali
\nadvertisement that appeared in the newspaper yesterday.<\/p>\n<\/table>\n

They also lodged a police report against the
\nnewspaper and the Skol beer company claiming it was insulting to the
\nIndian community.<\/p>\n

Its secretary, C. Shivarraj, said the advertisement by Skol printed on
\npage 5 could lead to misperception on the Indian community as well as
\nconvey a wrong message to Indian youth.<\/p>\n

“They are insulting the
\nHindus’ Rangoli kolam by putting the beer bottles in the middle and
\nstating that the Deepavali celebration will be more enjoyable with Skol
\nbeer,” said Shivarraj at the Sentul police station here yesterday.<\/p>\n

He said members of the public who saw the advertisement might get the wrong idea that Indians were fond of drinking.<\/p>\n


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\nShivarraj added that Indian youth might also get the wrong idea that it was a norm to get drunk when they were adults. “This misperception and wrong message of the Indian community must stop,” said Shivarraj.<\/p>\n

He called for an apology from the newspaper and the beer company before Deepavali on Oct 27.<\/p>\n

The report was lodged by MIC Youth, Culture and Religion Bureau chief, K. Sathasivam, who was accompanied by Shivarraj.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The guilty parties are the advertising firm, the alcohol selling company, and the newspaper. But I think there are another two culprits as well. Do readers remember that alcohol advertisements were once banned from print media? When and who allowed it again? Did you recall reading about it anywhere? I can’t. So is it legal for such advertisements to be published or not? We can even see alcohol advertisements in cinemas.<\/p>\n

The other culprit is the community itself. Alcohol has forged deeply in our festivals and daily lives – in the name of socialising, modern lifestyle, and stress reducer. We can find minibars in affluent and middle-income Hindu houses nowadays, while restaurants and samsu shops still cater for those who are in lower income category and outskirts of towns. We hear our politicians given names related to alcohol – such is the level of humilitation we bring onto ourselves.<\/p>\n

We console ourselves by saying that some pubs and alcohol outlets are run by our Indian brothers – must give them business. Well, did anyone point a knife in their backs and force them to sell alcohol?<\/p>\n

So, I think we deserve being given such a “gift” in the Nanban paper. Yeah, laugh about it. “Small matter” – yup, I can hear some saying that. Well, wait till your 13-year old kid comes home drunk\u00a0 (what’s the big deal when his dad drinks?) or your loved one ending up in the hospital after being hit by a drunk 18-year old car driver, then we’ll see how small the matter is.<\/p>\n

SAY NO TO ALCOHOL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I agree with the demand by MIC Youth. What were Nanban editors thinking of when they allowed the advertisement to be published? Which company did the advertisement? The MIC Youth should make formal complaint to the AAAA (if I’m not mistaken). MIC Youth demands an apology from Indian daily Tamil Nanban and a beer company […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[117,24],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-crime","tag-mic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}