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Today, we will perform a DNA test on the poisonous snake of racism, which will reveal how Western countries have nurtured various venomous snakes against India. These snakes are trying to bite us. They are spewing poison against India. But our country’s ‘designer club’ remains unaffected.
They don’t care. For the past two days, our country’s ‘designer club’ has been glorifying a foreign journalist, calling them a role model of journalism… The country of that journalist has called India a land of snake charmers. Norway’s largest newspaper attempted to portray India’s Prime Minister and all of us as snake charmers through a cartoon.
Norway’s Newspaper’s Double Standards
Former French President Charles de Gaulle once said, ‘Insulting a head of state is not merely hurting a specific individual. It is an assault on that country’s history, its constitution, and its sovereignty.’ A Norwegian newspaper has inflicted this same assault on India through Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
This is a cartoon that was published in Norway’s largest and most prestigious newspaper, Aftenposten. Below the cartoon, a lengthy article was written explaining Prime Minister Modi and India’s global relations. This article was published before Prime Minister Modi arrived in Norway, in a newspaper considered the most authoritative news source by the country’s policymakers, intellectuals, and general public.
India Called a Land of Snakes and Snake Charmers
This cartoon was created. What does this cartoon mean? What message did Norway’s 160-year-old newspaper want to convey through this cartoon? The narrow-minded editor of this Norwegian newspaper wanted to convey that India is still a land of snake charmers. Through this cartoon, a journalist with petty thinking attempted to suggest that people in India still have primitive, orthodox mindsets.
For a country that has hoisted its flag on the moon and Mars, such thinking is proof of foreign media’s frustration. This cartoon is not freedom of expression. It is a symbol of racism against India. This cartoon is evidence of the toxic mindset of Western countries. This cartoon reveals the truth about Western countries. Media is a mirror of society and the country. A country’s DNA can be seen through its media. We want to tell Norway’s racist newspaper and its depressed journalists with contaminated thinking that we are not snakes. But we know how to extract venom from a poisonous snake. We want to present a fact to those journalists with venomous thinking, from the land of snake charmers, that will cleanse their prejudiced poison. Many of you travel abroad. Some of you may live in Norway.
It is possible that you may encounter people there with a mindset similar to that Norwegian newspaper and journalist, who only know India as a land of snake charmers. Please be sure to respond to them.
Basic Differences Between India and Norway
First, we explain the difference between Norway and India to Norwegian journalists.
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India produces 25 to 30 lakh STEM graduates every year. That means India produces as many engineers and scientists in one year as half of Norway’s population. The journalist of Norway’s most prestigious and oldest newspaper still thinks India is a land of snake charmers.
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India has more than 54,000 colleges and over a thousand institutions that award PhD degrees, while Norway has only 7 recognized universities. India has over 1.5 lakh registered newspapers and magazines, while Norway has about 500 news publishing companies.
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In India, an average newspaper prints 31 lakh copies daily, while Norway’s prestigious Aftenposten prints only 2.5 lakh copies daily.
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According to the Press Registrar General of India, there are more than 30 major regional newspapers in India with a total daily circulation exceeding 2.5 lakh copies. This is the difference between India and Norway.
But this difference is unknown to Norwegian journalists and the editors of their newspapers. Why don’t they know? They don’t know because they are unwilling to step out of their narrow mindset. It’s not that Norwegian journalists are unaware of what is happening in India. They