{"id":1003911,"date":"2026-04-20T09:58:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003911"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:44:25","slug":"lenskart-apologises-after-online-backlash-releases-new-style-guide-welcoming-religious-symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/20\/lenskart-apologises-after-online-backlash-releases-new-style-guide-welcoming-religious-symbols\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenskart apologises after online backlash, releases new style guide welcoming religious symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Following massive online backlash over a purported internal grooming document, eyewear retailer Lenskart has issued a public apology and released a standardised &#8216;In-Store Style Guide&#8217; that allows employees to wear religious and cultural symbols at work. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement on X, the company said it is making its guidelines public and transparent to address the concerns of its customers and community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Following massive online backlash over a purported internal grooming document, eyewear retailer Lenskart has issued a public apology and released a standardised &#8216;In-Store Style Guide&#8217; that allows employees to wear religious and cultural symbols at work. In a statement on X, the company said it is making its guidelines public and transparent to address the concerns of its customers and community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}