{"id":68847,"date":"2018-06-14T16:05:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T11:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=68847"},"modified":"2018-06-14T16:05:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T11:05:04","slug":"celebrity-chef-atul-kochhar-booted-out-of-dubai-hotel-after-anti-islam-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=68847","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity chef Atul Kochhar booted out of Dubai hotel after anti-Islam tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dubai, June 14 (TNS): A five-star hotel in Dubai has sacked famous international chef of Indian-origin Atul Kochhar after he tweeted that followers of Islam had \u201cterrorised\u201d Hindus for 2,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>The comments were made after a recent Priyanka Chopra starrer action series depicted a terrorist plot hatched by a group of Hindu extremists, provoking outrage in India. Chopra apologised for the storyline at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s sad to see that you [Chopra] have not respected the sentiments of Hindus who have been terrorised by Islam over 2000 years. Shame on You,\u201d Kochhar, the London-based Michelin-starred chef reacted to the\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Quantico<\/em>\u00a0episode.<\/p>\n<p>Kochhar is associated with the Rang Mahal restaurant in Dubai as well as five others in the UK and Spain,\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>He deleted the tweet the following day and apologised. \u201cThere is no justification for my tweet, a major error made in the heat of the moment on Sunday,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Courtesy:\u00a0The Guardian<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Dubai, June 14 (TNS): A five-star hotel in Dubai has sacked famous international chef of Indian-origin Atul Kochhar after he tweeted that followers of Islam had \u201cterrorised\u201d Hindus for 2,000 years. The comments were made after a recent Priyanka Chopra starrer action series depicted a terrorist plot hatched by a group of Hindu extremists, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68849,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68847\/revisions\/68849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}