My letter to the Japanese Ambassador to India - Protest Sony

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Following is the letter of protest I wrote to the Japanese Ambassador to

India. I request readers to write to him to protest a Japanese

corporation's wanton insult of Hindu Gods to:

Email to: jpembjic <jpembjic

 

--

Mr. Hideaki Domichi

Ambassador of Japan to India

New Delhi.

 

Your Excellency,

I write this to strongly protest the blasphemous act of one of your

country's best-known corporations, M/S Sony Corporation.

Sony's Indian company has introduced a game called as Hanuman - The Boy

Warrior. Here's a link to the product:

Please go through the description of the game:

http://in.playstation.com/ps2/games/hanuman-boy-warrior/index.html

<http://in.playstation.com/ps2/games/hanuman-boy-warrior/index.html>

 

(If good players play, Hanuman wins; but in the hands of a novice,

Hanuman loses in the game. So Hanuman is an object of game. This is

objectionable and blasphemous. We have no objections if it is a cartoon

or film correctly depicted without deviation from the Itihasa and

Puranas.)

 

Hanuman is one of the most revered Gods of Hindu religion. To make the

most worshipful Hanuman as an object of game is blasphemous and hurts

the sentiments of a billion Hindus, the world over. I am aghast at the

attempt of the Japanese company to reduce an Indian God to the levels of

a batman, a spiderman, a superman and a He-man. This hurts us and no

amount of explanations would ease our sense of deep hurt.

Following is the protest I had made to the Indian representative of Sony

and his reply to me:

(Note to readers: Here I had pasted the three letter exchange between me

and Sony's Mr Bose, I have deleted the exchange to make this letter

short for your reading convenience)

Strong protests through mail have started being sent to the Indian

office of Sony, but it appears that the Japanese Company's Indian

representative does not appear to see the reason that using Hanuman as

an object of game has hurt the feelings of the Hindus.

 

I have challenged through him if Sony would make a similar game out of

Allah or Prophet or Jesus, for which he chose to remain silent. This

game is in total disregard to the sensitivities of a billion people.

I am sure that as sensible and sensitive people, the Japanese would take

our feelings into account and immediately order the Indian Sony

subsidiary to withdraw the game product. Please use your good offices to

let Mr. Howard Stringer, Chairman, CEO and President:Sony Corporation

know of this serious hurt caused to Hindus worldwide because of the

indifference of their Indian company and its officials.

I would urge my fellow Hindus to boycott all Japanese products,

specially the ones from Sony Corporation, until this game is withdrawn

from the markets.

Yours truly,

S V BadriChennaiIndia

------Here is a sample letter sent in to me by Dr Kalyanaraman, which

can be used for registering your protest:

To

 

His Excellency, Ambassador of Japan to India,

cc: Mr. Howard Stringer, Chairman, CEO and President, Sony Corporation

cc: Atindriya_Bose <Atindriya_Bose

cc: Hindu groups

 

Sub: Protesting Sony Corporation's insult to Hindu god Hanuman

worshipped by millions of Hindus all over the world.

 

We, Hindus, are constrained to bring to your notice an emerging, serious

international scandal indulged in by the prestigious Sony corporation

with its Headquarters based in Japan.

 

We demand that Government of Japan should demand of Sony Corporation to

instantly withdraw the video game titled: Play Station 2 titled Hanuman

- The Boy Warrior be instantly together with an unqualified apology from

Japanese Government to a billion Hindus whose sentiments have been hurt

by this game.

 

Please do not allow this irresponsible action of a Japanese Corporation

to negatively impact the cordial Indo-Japanese relations.

 

If there is no prompt intervention and action by Sony Corporation to

withdraw the game, a campaign will be launched to boycott Sony products

and all our friends in the email lists will be urged to do the same.

 

We are piqued that such a large corporation like Sony does not respect

the sentiments of the practitioners of the most ancient of all

religions.Would Sony have the courage next to make a game featuring

Allah or Prophet Mohammed; maybe, they dare not.

 

The details of the video are at

http://in.playstation.com/ps2/games/hanuman-boy-warrior/index.html

<http://in.playstation.com/ps2/games/hanuman-boy-warrior/index.html> If

good players plays, Hanuman wins; but in the hands of a novice, Hanuman

loses in the game. So Hanuman is an object of game. This is

objectionable and blasphemous. It is a shame that Sony should take the

lead in such ignoble practice. Harrod's of London apologized to the

Hindus and recalled their products that were demeaning towards the

Hindus and I hope Sony emulates them and follows the suit unless Sony

wants a black face in India.

 

Shri Hanuman a divinity revered by millions of Hindus the world over

cannot be the target of those who want to denigrate the " divinities "

worshipped by the Hindus.

 

Looking forward to your prompt and urgent intervention and appropriate

action by Sony Corporation before the issue becomes an international

scandal.

 

Thanking you for your consideration and looking forward to a line in

reply from you.

 

Yours truly,