A newspaper clipping from The Times of India is being widely shared on social media. It is mentioned that a scientist named Karan Jani from Vadodara, Gujarat, and his companions were refused entry into Garba celebrations in Atlanta, US because the organisers claimed their surnames didn’t sound Hindu.
The headline of the viral article reads: “Vadodara Scientist thrown out of US Garba by Gujaratis.”
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim and found it to be MISLEADING.
We did a keyword search, but could not find any recent media report that corroborated the viral claim.
According to a news report from The Times of India website, dated October 15, 2018, an astrophysicist Karan Jani, who was based in the United States, claimed that the organisers of a Garba event in Atlanta turned him and his three companions away because their last names “didn’t look to be Hindu.”
We also discovered Jani’s October 13, 2018, incident-related tweet thread, claiming that he and his companions were denied admittance to Shakti Mandir in Atlanta, because they were playing Garba and that they were informed, “You don’t look Hindu and your last name in your IDs doesn’t sound Hindu.”
Year 2018 & Shakti Mandir in Atlanta, USA denied me and my friends entry from playing garba because:
“You don’t look Hindu and last name in your IDs don’t sound Hindu”
-THREAD- pic.twitter.com/lLVq4KhJtw
— Dr. Karan Jani (@AstroKPJ) October 13, 2018
Thus, it is evident from the above information that the viral news is old.
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