India Post News Service
Upset at Brooklyn (New York) headquartered e-commerce company Etsys, Inc. still selling Ganesh flip-flops after taking off the Ganesh Toilet seats, a large group of Indian Americans in the country have strongly pitched for their immediate removal; calling it highly inappropriate.
In July last, Etsy withdrew the toilet seats carrying image of Lord Ganesha from its website within two hours after a protest spearheaded by Indians led by Rajan Zed on this highly sensitive product. Lord Ganesh is highly revered in Hinduism and was meant to be worshipped in temples or home shrines and not to adorn one’s feet It is not okay as it hurt the devotees.
They urged Etsy and its CEO Josh Silverman to offer a formal apology, besides withdrawing Ganesh flip-flops.
Etsy; founded in 2005 in an apartment in Brooklyn and now headquartered in its Dumbo neighborhood with additional offices in France, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland, San Francisco (California), Hudson (New York); describes itself as “a global creative commerce platform”. It claims to have had annual gross merchandise sales of $3.25B in 2017.
