Vayalar Ravi - FishbowlLA http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla LA Media News, Unspooled Copyright 2013 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:38:39 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Jay Leno Gag Enrages India’s Sikh Community This is surely a first. In the wake of a very poorly chosen photo to support a January 19 Mitt Romney gag on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, India’s ambassador to the U.S., Nirupama Rao, has promised to “take the matter up with relevant authorities in Washington.” That information comes from Tom Wright, New Delhi-based South Asia correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.

There is also a Facebook protest group, all because a Leno staffer selected for the Romney summer home joke a picture of the sacred Golden Temple in Amritsar, India. The shimmering structure is the Sikh religion’s holiest shrine. From Wright’s dispatch:

India’s Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi, who is traveling in the U.S., also said the embassy would lodge a complaint, according to the Press Trust of India.

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]]> Richard Horgan http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/tonight-show-jay-leno-golden-sikh-temple-amritsar-mitt-romney_b51111#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/tonight-show-jay-leno-golden-sikh-temple-amritsar-mitt-romney_b51111 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/?p=51111 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:00:44 +0000