Denigration of Lord Ganesha at Frankfurt Book Fair 2006

The Director, International Section of ‘Frankfurt Book Fair’ confirmed that they have removed the poster and rendered their apology. Thus we have stopped this protest. We thank all the protestors for support.
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We came across a picture of Lord Ganesha at this link with the subtitles. "Two participants walk past a hand-painted billboard featuring the Hindu god Ganesh, on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair. India is the guest of honour at the world's largest book fair which opens 04 October 2006.(AFP/John MacDougall)" The picture shows Lord Ganesha standing on a structure like a keyboard with eight hands and with items like a laptop computer, CD, floppy, mouse, dish antenna etc in his hands. This is a very disgusting denigration of Lord Ganesha which has hurt our religious sentiments very badly and caused disrespect to our beloved deity of worship.

Lord Ganesha is a very popular deity of the Hindus and the Ganesh Festival is widely celebrated in India with great splendor. The use of a deity for a commercial event like a book fair, that too, in a distorted manner is very highly objectionable. In the Hindu religious ‘stotra’ of ‘Atharvashirsh’ Lord Ganesha is described as one with four hands with weapons like paash (noose), ankush (goad), and a sweet (modak) in his hands.