Hijacking Cartoon
We have not seen a joke in more poor taste than Michael Ramirez’s Jan. 4 cartoon regarding the hijacking of the Indian Airlines Airbus from Katmandu, Nepal. It belittles the tragic and harrowing incarceration of nearly 200 Indian and other passengers, satirizes a most abominable and heinous terrorist act, which led to the gratuitous killing of one person and a similar threat to all the others, and given its factual inaccuracy could cause untold business loss to the airline.
Coming at a time when we see the media in this country totally focused on the threat from international terrorism, we wonder whether there is one standard for the people here and another for all others.
RAJENDRA ABHYANKAR
Consul General of India
San Francisco
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