p>A Norwegian newspaper came under fire on Tuesday for depicting Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a snake charmer in a cartoon published with an opinion piece.
The cartoon, which surfaced on social media, has triggered backlash from netizens with people calling out the racial stereotyping.The illustration, published in Norway's leading daily newspaper Aftenposten, depicts PM Modi with a snake charmer's flute and a fuel-station filling pipe as the snake.
The article is title "A clever and slightly annoying man".This comes at a time when PM Modi just finished his Norway visit, where he participated in the 3rd India-Nordic Summit.
The visit was ridden with controversies as a Norwegian journalist urged the prime minister to take some questions from the media, after he and his counterpart, Jonas Gahr Støre, made press statements following a meeting in Oslo on....
