Amazon Canada Sells Bikini With Kannada Flag, Hurt Sentiments Of Kannadigas

 Aravind Limbavali, the Karnataka minister will be taking an action against Amazon Canada for promoting the sale of the bikinis with the Kannada emblem. The minister has demanded an apology for hurting the sentiments of Kannadigas

Aravind Limbavali said on Saturday that the state government of Karnataka will be taking legal action against Amazon Canada for selling a bikini imprinted with Karnataka’s flag and emblem. The bikini allegedly “insulted” the sentiments of the Kannada people and the minister has asked the tech-giant to issue an apology in this matter.

Amazon Canada sells Kannada flag bikini

“This is a matter of Kannadigas' self-pride and we will not tolerate the rise in such incidents. @amazonca should, therefore, apologise to Kannadigas. Legal action will be taken immediately against @amazonca.” The minister tweeted on Saturday.

We experienced an insult of Kannada by @Google recently. Even before the scars could heal, we find @amazonca using the colours of #Kannada flag and the kannada icon on ladies’ clothes 1/2

— Aravind Limbavali (@ArvindLBJP) June 5, 2021

The state of Karnataka has its own red, white and yellow coloured flag with an emblem of state Gandaberunda representing a two-headed mythological bird.

Google addresses Kannada as the ugliest language in India

A few days back, the Karnataka state said that it will take legal action against Google for showing the official language of the state, Kannada as “the ugliest language in India”.

Google faced huge outrage for hurting the sentiments of the Kannadigas. Many people including the leaders of south Indian states expressed their discontentment on this matter.

“Home to the great Vijayanagara Empire, #Kannada language has a rich heritage, a glorious legacy and unique culture. One of the world’s oldest languages Kannada had great scholars who wrote epics much before Geoffrey Chaucer was born in the 14th century. Apologise @GoogleIndia.” Minister P C Mohan said in a tweet demanding an apology.

Home to the great Vijayanagara Empire, #Kannada language has a rich heritage, a glorious legacy and a unique culture. One of the world’s oldest languages Kannada had great scholars who wrote epics much before Geoffrey Chaucer was born in the 14th century. Apologise @GoogleIndia. pic.twitter.com/Xie927D0mf

— P C Mohan (@PCMohanMP) June 3, 2021

Soon after the outrage, Google fixed its search result and apologised for hurting the feelings of the community. “Naturally, these are not reflective of the opinions of Google, and we apologise for the misunderstanding and hurting any sentiments.” Google issued its statement and apology on Twitter.

Google admitted that the search feature wasn’t perfect and yielded “surprising” results and that they are working to improve the algorithm.