‘Like Durga, Cardi B is a dominant female voice’? Cardi B pays homage to Maa Durga to promote new sneaker collection, enrages Indians with revealing photo

Cardi B doesn’t have to do a lot to fire up controversy, however she positively mustn’t have thought that in regards to the launch of her debut sneaker assortment with Reebok which is due on Friday, November 13. According to the captions of the photographs, the 28-year-old rapper was paying homage to the Hindu goddess Durga, who’s the image of power and safety in a beautiful pink Georges Hobeika robe to advertise her sneaker assortment. Cardi captioned one picture, “So excited for my sneaker drop this Friday November 13th! Hope you guys love it! Cardi’s glamourous image for the magazine cover showed her with her hands (eight of them, like Goddess Durga) stretched around her in different positions, her long black hair tailing behind her.

Footwear News’ Instagram handle shared the image of Cardi, captioning it, “If Cardi’s rockin’ it, go buy stock in it. That’s a tip as FN’s November cover star Cardi B makes her first major foray into the shoe industry with the Nov. 13 debut of her Club C Cardi sneaker collection with Reebok.”

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The caption went on that she is paying homage to Goddess Durga, “In a Georges Hobeika dress, she pays homage to Durga, the Hindu goddess, whose symbols of protection and inner strength resonate as much in modern times as they have through the centuries. Like Durga, Cardi B is a dominant female voice at a critical time.”

While the {photograph} was artistically interesting, the truth that one would go so far as examine oneself to a goddess of a rustic that takes faith very significantly nearly appeared like asking for bother. And rightly so, as social media customers started to lash out on the WAP rapper. Cardi’s corseted robe revealed her cleavage, and this harm quite a lot of Indian sensibilities. Indians have been extraordinarily displeased by Cardi’s naked bodied homage to the Goddess, and one Twitter person wrote, “So some people are saying Cardi B is paying homeage to our hindu goddess Durga. As a hindu, I want to say that, durga maa is never depicted bare bodied. Secondly it is prohibited to wear shoes in a temple and this woman is holding a shoe on her hand depicting goddess Durga?”

Other Twitter customers weren’t as eloquent to specific their disgruntlement:

  

What do you consider Cardi’s photograph? Is it appreciation or insensitivity?

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