Hindus Urge Sony to Withdraw Video Game 'Hanuman: Boy Warrior'
Tokyo, Apr 28, 2009 (JCN) - Hindus urge Sony to withdraw Hanuman video game "Hanuman: Boy Warrior" video game for PlayStation2, saying it trivializes the highly revered deity of Hinduism. In a video game set-up, the player would control the destiny of Lord Hanuman while in reality the believers put the destinies of themselves in the hands of their deities.
Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, argued that re-imagining Hindu scriptures and deities for commercial or other agenda was not appropriate as it hurt the devotees and controlling and manipulating Lord Hanuman with a joystick/button/keyboard/mouse was denigration.
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