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Indian Sikh religious leaders upset with actress over tattoo of religious text


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Published: April 12, 2007



AMRITSAR, India: Indian Sikh religious leaders are upset with Bollywood actress and television anchor Mandira Bedi for a tattooing a religious text on her back.

Bedi, who is also a Sikh, had the words "Ek Onkar" or "One God," the first words of the Sikh holy text the Guru Granth Sahib, tattooed in temporary ink on her back and was recently photographed showing the tattoo.

"Mandira Bedi has (made) this tattoo on her back and has posed for photographers in a semi-naked state just to earn money. It is totally against the principles of the Sikh religion," Gurbachan Singh, head priest of the Sikh shrine the Golden Temple, said Thursday.

Other Sikh leaders have called for police to file a case against the actress for offending religious sentiment and asked their followers to boycott her performances until the tattoo is removed.

Bedi, 32, is currently in the West Indies anchoring a cricket-based television show during the World Cup.



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