{"id":1029263,"date":"2026-08-17T10:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029263"},"modified":"2026-08-17T10:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:07:25","slug":"flipkarts-freedom-sale-ad-faces-heat-for-being-self-serving-insensitive-netizens-react-very-bad-analogy-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/17\/flipkarts-freedom-sale-ad-faces-heat-for-being-self-serving-insensitive-netizens-react-very-bad-analogy-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Flipkart&#8217;s Freedom Sale ad faces heat for being \u2018self-serving, insensitive\u2019; netizens react \u2014 \u2018Very bad analogy, but&#8230;\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An advertisement for e-commerce platform Flipkart&#8217;s Freedom Sale in a newspaper is facing heat for being \u201cself-serving, disgusting, and insensitive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The ad mimics traditional Indian newspaper obituary pages under the headline &#8220;WE AREN&#8217;T SAD AT ALL,&#8221; featuring photos and notices of living people described as alive and well, with lines tying into online shopping urgency before &#8220;our deals will soon leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An advertisement for e-commerce platform Flipkart&#8217;s Freedom Sale in a newspaper is facing heat for being \u201cself-serving, disgusting, and insensitive\u201d. The ad mimics traditional Indian newspaper obituary pages under the headline &#8220;WE AREN&#8217;T SAD AT ALL,&#8221; featuring photos and notices of living people described as alive and well, with lines tying into online shopping urgency before &#8220;our deals will soon leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029263","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029265,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029263\/revisions\/1029265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}