The 'New York Times' Publishes Racist Comic About India's Space Mission

[posedion]

No need to issue fatwas. If you accept this now, they will walk all over you. Just expose this as racism on part of NYT- and let public perception take care of it.

ragnar my freind the broad Indo-US sentiment will show itself in decades to come who is bothered about a cartoon

 

[kodandarama]

The Economist' Paints Ludicrous Caricature Of Indian-Americans

The Economist is facing harsh criticism this week over its depiction of Indian-Americans in a Monday piece.

The story, which detailed Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's appearance at New York's Madison Square Garden Sunday night, opened with a tasteless characterization of the crowd:

From The Economist:

Inside are over 18,000 Indian-Americans, as prosperous and upstanding a diaspora as you will find from the Redwood forests to the Gulf Stream waters. They are willing themselves into the kind of obedient hysteria they were meant to have left behind generations ago in the badlands of Asia, along with hunger and snakes. “Modi, Modi, Modi,” shout the massed oncologists, engineers and entrepreneurs, wearing T-Shirts bearing his face and the slogan “Unity, Action, Progress”. An Americanised Bollywood dance troupe wearing fluorescent military uniforms gyrates to Bruce Springsteen’s anthem “Born in the USA”. The cries reach a lustier pitch. “Modi, Modi, Modi!”

Shocked readers responded with outrage:

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.Swarajya magazine responded to the article with its own analysis on Tuesday, picking apart each paragraph that it says is obviously "offensive, racist, and still unable to come to terms with the loss of Empire."

Ironically, the Economist apologized for the article – or, rather, for a different part of it, attaching this note:

Editor's note: The second sentence of this blog post was changed on September 29th to make clear that The Economist does not consider Mr Modi to be a "pain in the ***"; that epithet is merely how we imagined an uninformed New Yorker might feel about someone who causes a traffic jam.

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.'The Economist' Paints Ludicrous Caricature Of Indian-Americans

 

[Indrani]

The Economist is on warpath against Modi supported by Sikularist within our society.

Narendra Modi Is a Dangerous Cliche - Bloomberg View

 

[TejasMk3]

Well the economist is a garbage paper, they got their prediction on the elections wrong, and are hurt that their RaGa didnt win, so all they do is create extremely cheap third rate articles about Modi.

The best part is they are literally begging for subscriptions...they offer an 83% discount for Indians! good luck!

 

[kodandarama]

The Economist is on warpath against Modi supported by Sikularist within our society.

Narendra Modi Is a Dangerous Cliche - Bloomberg View

The economist tirade against Hindus, Hidutva and Modi is an Old one. It is also well known. Its only now that they are being shamed for it.

 

[Established_1965]

I didnt really feel offended at the cartoon tbh, I was more amused by the the author criticizing the cartoon (Sharanya Haridas). and her need to tell the world that Indians wear western attire too

If she is born in a different country with different culture then she could be shocked.

My ethnic line is Indian Tamil but I'm a Singaporean but when i landed in Chennai, i had a huge cultural shock. I seriously thought sari is something which u wear for diwali

 

[halupridol]

:facepalm:

 

[TejasMk3]

My ethnic line is Indian Tamil but I'm a Singaporean but when i landed in Chennai, i had a huge cultural shock. I seriously thought sari is something which u wear for diwali

Ah okay. Saree is quite common,you can see it many offices, some younger women choose Salwar. While dhoti/vaeshti is not as common in private offices, it is still worn by many.

Basically it comes down to this. Does modernization mean westernization?. If you notice leaders in east Asia (like Xi, Abe), they always wear a full suit and almost no one wears their traditional clothes.. Is it possible to be modern and still retain your ethnic clothes/customs etc?
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[Established_1965]

Ah okay. Saree is quite common,you can see it many offices, some younger women choose Salwar. While dhoti/vaeshti is not as common in private offices, it is still worn by many.

Basically it comes down to this. Does modernization mean westernization?. If you notice leaders in east Asia (like Xi, Abe), they always wear a full suit and almost no one wears their traditional clothes.. Is it possible to be modern and still retain your ethnic clothes/customs etc?
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Yeah, I know it now. Im currently in Bangalore, India for past 3 months, employed by Singtel India. Sooner or later, you will be having a new ISP ->Singtel .

 

[Iggy]

India trolls, The New York Times apologises for 'racist' Mangalyaan cartoon

The News Minute | October 6, 2014 | 08:25 am IST

Perseverance ultimately pays off, at least this incident proved so. When The New York Times (NYT) recently published a racist cartoon showing India with a cow and knocking on the “Elite Space Club”, Indians, specially Malayalis, made sure that the publication got to see their wrath, or more like read it on Facebook.

So why does it bother Malayalis? Because a significant number of people working in ISRO hail from Kerala.

And thus the NYT received a steady influx of comments from Indians expressing their rage and displeasure at the cartoon, and hordes of comments demanding an apology.

We made an attempt to translate some of the comments from Malayalam to English for the NYT. Read: Dear New York Times: Do you even know what Malayali trolls are telling you on Facebook?

Scores of comments (including those in Malayali Malayalam and English Malayalam ) later, the NYT has now issued an apology on their Facebook page.

'A large number of readers have complained about a recent editorial cartoon in The International New York Times, about India's foray into space exploration. The intent of the cartoonist, Heng Kim Song, was to highlight how space exploration is no longer the exclusive domain of rich, Western countries. Mr. Heng, who is based in Singapore, uses images and text - often in a provocative way - to make observations about international affairs. We apologize to readers who were offended by the choice of images in this cartoon. Mr. Heng was in no way trying to impugn India, its government or its citizens. We appreciate that readers have shared their feedback, which we welcome. — Andrew Rosenthal, Editorial Page Editor'

India trolls, The New York Times apologises for 'racist' Mangalyaan cartoon

Personally I do not find any thing racist in this cartoon..We Indians are getting agitated on everything without any reason..

 

[janon]

There is nothing 'racist' about it, but the cartoon is in poor taste. 'Racism' has become an overused term now. Unless they were making fun of brown skinned people or any certain race of people, it is not racism. I guess they are making fun of our country - if we think their mockery is misplaced (as I do), then let's tell them why, instead of playing the racism card. BTW doesn't America get mocked and abused all the time? Is that racism?

I'm not quite sure about the message of the cartoon. If it was meant as the flawed and tired old criticism that a country that has poverty should know their place and not pursue scientific endeavors, then they are wrong, and we have responded to that enough by now. OTOH, we could even view this as a compliment - that despite our problems of poverty and backwardness, as a society we are still able to aim high. (Quite literally.)

 

[RazPaK]

 

[Foo_Fighter]

I *ucking laugh sadly on these articles, where a humorous cartoon (western humor) which intends that relatively poor India is knocking on the doors of elites (which is positive) is taken as racism here. We Indians need to grow up and start looking the things as a whole... not just a statement. Grow up!!!

 

[anant_s]

Nothing Racist there. a little heartburn thats it.

 

[RazPaK]

I fucking laugh sadly on these articles, where a humorous cartoon (western humor) which intends that relatively poor India is knocking on the doors of elites (which is positive) is taken as racism here. We Indians need to grow up and start looking the things as a whole... not just a statement. Grow up!!!

And this ladies and gentlemen perfectly illustrates indian slave mentality and white worship.

I'm sure you found the no dogs or Indians allowed signs in British India humorous as well.