Indian deities in merchandising?

[sailorptah]

Our world, present day

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[corvideye]

What did you search? I tried "ganesha advertising" and found this site which might be useful:
http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/cycle_pure_agarbatties_lord_ganesha

(looks like there's other deities on there too)

[corvideye]

Hmm, here's a case where people were offended by the use of Shiva in an ad...

http://www.hindujagruti.org/news/43.html

[innie_darling]

Are you asking about advertising in the U.S. or in India?

[sailorptah]

I know they have different implications, but either one would be interesting - as well as ads from other countries, Western or Asian (or elsewhere).

[snippy_kitty]

Every business has Ganesha in his office.

[reapermum]

There's juggernaut, the English spelling of one of the titles of Krisna or a heavy lorry.

[loganberrybunny]

It seems to be dying out in the latter sense, and I can't recall the word being used actually by a business. People much younger than me (34) often have to have "juggernaut" explained to them, perhaps unusurprisingly when even "lorry" is going the same way, pushed out by the American "truck".

[reapermum]

Yea, after spending years (I'm 59) using the term I now tend to say HGV or just Heavies. I'd never thought about that.

[sailorptah]

...oh, wow. I had no idea "juggernaut" was from Sanskrit. (I wonder if the people who created the X-Men character knew any better.)

[snakewhissperer]

shiva routers come to mind.