New York Times apologises for mocking India's Mars mission

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NEW DELHI: The New York Times has apologised after having been severely criticised by many readers over a demeaning, ‘racist’ cartoon ridiculing India’s successful Mars mission.

India garnered worldwide appreciation as it triumphed in its first interplanetary attempt by putting a satellite into orbit around Mars but in all the obsession around the 'Mangalyaan' a cartoon carried by The New York Times, that showed an Indian farmer with a cow knocking at the door of a room marked 'Elite Space Club', came in for severe censure for being racist.

The caricature shows two members of the 'Elite Space Club' reading a newspaper on India's feat and look perturbed with the Indian farmer knocking at their door.

The cartoon was criticised for overlooking the importance of the Mars mission that is seen by many as a major boost in India's space programme.

Following scores of complains from its readers, The New York Times newspaper had decided to tender an apology.

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The cartoon:

[Fred Sanders]

1. NYT white privilege.

[raging moderate]

2. Somebody from India should draw a corrected version.

In which the old fuddy-duddies inside are holding newspapers with this cartoon, but the guy from India is outside with 21st-century state-of-the-art astronaut regalia and equipment, holding impressive findings from their successful Mars mission.

Congratulations, India! May your initiative inspire the rest of us!