On the occasion of Shri Krushna Janmashtami, a tweet to create awareness about the denigration of Shri Krushna was posted from twitter account, Twitter.com/balsanskar. The tweet they appealed to obtain Shri Krushna’s grace by stopping denigration of Shri Krushna, giving the example of HJS campaign against the Scroll Droll which published the denigrating pictures of Hindu Deities on their Facebook. This tweet was posted on 25th August 2016. This tweet developed surge of anger among the devout Hindus active on twitter and they started a twitter trend #BoycottMyntra.
Immediately Scroll Droll posted a tweet on twitter with clarification. Below are the tweets by Scroll Droll.
Myntra also posted a tweet on twitter with clarification. Below are the tweets by Myntra.
Today while #BoycottMyntra trend was going on, appeal was made from twitter.com/Hindujagrutiorg account to remove the other pictures denigrating Hindu deities and sages. As a result of this Scroll Droll removed all the pictures denigrating Hindu deities and sages from their Facebook account.
As per their website, Scrolldroll.com is a made up of a bunch of creative professionals who create the content and their posters have been featured on top websites. They have published pictures of Hindu Deities on their Facebook Page through which they have tried to show what happens when Indian mythology meets today’s digital technology. This amounts to mockery of Hindu Deities and hurts the sentiments of millions of Hindus.
Alert Hindus notified Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) about this denigration of Hindu Deities. HJS wrote to scrolldroll.com appealing to stop the denigration by removing these pictures, but there has been no response from them.
Links to denigration provided for reference below:
Below are some denigrated images posted by Scroll Droll on their Facebook page…
False propaganda by Catch News against HJS and devout Hindus
Whenever Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) comes across any denigration of Hindu Deities or Hindu Dharma, it has protested in a constitutional way and has also requested the Hindus to protest in lawful manner. Ignoring these facts the anti-Hindu ‘Catch news’ has published the below news and is doing false propagation.
The letter explaining the denigration sent by HJS to scrolldroll.com
From: HJS Appeals <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:23 PM
Subject: Request you to remove denigrated pictures of Hindu Gods from your Facebook page immediately
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Date : 2.3.2016
To,
Scroll Droll Team,
Namaskar,
Devout Hindus contacted Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) about Hindu Deities’ pictures on your Facebook page through which you have tried to show what happens when Indian mythology meets today’s digital technology. This amounts to mockery of Hindu Deities and very hurtful for millions of Hindus.
We would like to bring to your attention that using the Hindu Gods Shri Ganapati , Shri Vishnu and Deity Hanuman in the name of creativity is insulting Them and very offensive to Hindus around the world. This leads to tarnishing the image of Gods and Hinduism. It also hurts the religious sentiments of Hindus.
Would you create similar caricatures of Prophets and Holy figures of other major religions?
We would like to mention here that hurting religious feelings leads to an offence as per the Indian Penal Code section 295A.
We urge you to consider the above points and ask you to remove these pictures from your Facebook page immediately and tender an unconditional apology to Hindus for publishing the same.
We stress that our aim in bringing up these points is to educate and ensure that Hinduism gets accurately represented in society. Hinduism has been misrepresented at many levels from the level of school textbooks to popular media. Though it is an ancient tradition, Hinduism has a lot to offer the modern world and we want children and adults alike to be able to understand and study it without it being misrepresented. You can take one step towards ensuring that Hinduism gets represented properly by stopping it.
Hindu Janajagruti Samiti is a registered NGO engaged in social, religious and National welfare work. The Samiti is active throughout the world, educating people about Dharma in scientific way, campaigning against malpractices that masquerade as religious practices while also solving issues of national, social and religious importance. For further details please refer to our website www.HinduJagruti.org.
Please acknowledge this letter and inform us in writing about action taken by you, failing which, we will be forced to start a protest campaign. Awaiting prompt action and reply.
Sincerely,
Hindu Janajagruti Samiti.
ScrollDroll is creative and it seems to be a group of energetic and artful people, good to have people like you, but use the tool which you have in favour of society, culture and country to make it a better place, instead of wasting your ability on disrespecting our culture and god, I hope you understand and respect the feeling of millions of Hindus, It would be more appreciated if you remove all the images of Hindu gods from your site and Facebook posts which denigrating god and providing a useless reason to laugh on our beloved culture and god, you know Hindus will not harm you even if you will make fun of there god so respect the feeling of people, or if you still want to be creative then try and create a similar image of Mohammed and then see where your creativity will take you, ( you wont even dare to think of it of making funny image of Mohammed), hope this would make some sense to you.