Priya Tanna, editor of Vogue India, on Friday apologised to the country's Hindus over her remarks that "neither the rains nor the Hindu gods could stop the shoppers from coming to Fashion's Night Out last year."

In a letter to Rajan Zed, President of Universal Society of Hinduism in Nevada, she said that her remarks were not meant to hurt the sentiments or the followers of any religion. "If you have felt otherwise, please accept my apologies," she wrote.

"Fashion's Night Out", a shopping event organised by the international fashion magazine globally, will be held in September this year.

Tanna told the US-based Women's Wear Daily that the event last year was the first luxury shopping festival to take place in India. It followed three consecutive days of rain, and took place during an inauspicious time of the Hindu calendar for buying expensive items, but that didn't stop the shoppers from shopping.

Zed had warned the magazine not to unnecessarily drag Hindu deities into promoting its fashion extravaganzas.