PAVAN MURALI forwards a cartoon from the Australian agency Inkcinct which, while conveying the irony of the current global food and fuel crisis, feeds the usual stereotype about the Third World.
Cartoon: courtesy Inkcinct
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churumuri 
The first world will get a taste of their own medicine. Few months ago, had a tangle with a few friends about how India, sans IT & Taj Mahal, is just known for its abject poverty. I countered that with ‘that’s what the media portrays, it’s not all reality’ ; they were unconvinced.
I opened up the Times Of India’s page three sectiion online and that had, among other things unflattering about the US, pictures of Britney Spears and her sister, Eva Longoria, Paris Hilton, Emma Watson and their no so important updates — not the side of Americana they had hoped the world dwells on . Iraq war critiques were their saving grace..
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