{"id":1194,"date":"2015-12-15T02:15:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T02:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2015-12-15T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T12:24:11","slug":"australian-racist-cartoon-shows-starving-indians-trying-to-eat-solar-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1194","title":{"rendered":"Australian &#8216;racist&#8217; cartoon shows starving Indians trying to eat solar panels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/racist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/racist-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"racist\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1195\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/racist-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/racist.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A cartoon in The Australian newspaper mocking the Paris climate change deal has provoked outrage on social media and in the Indian press.<\/p>\n<p>A newspaper cartoon in Australia showing starving Indians attempting to eat solar panels with mango chutney has been criticised as racist and drawing on \u201ca stereotype from the 1950s\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The cartoon, by Bill Leak, one of the nation\u2019s best-known cartoonists, appeared in The Australian, a daily broadsheet published by Rupert Murdoch\u2019s News Corp which has tended to take a sceptical approach to action on climate change. <\/p>\n<p>Chris Kenny, a columnist at the newspaper, told IBTimes India that the cartoon was &#8220;mocking the Paris deal for spending aid on climate instead of reducing poverty&#8221;, adding that &#8220;solar panels are not the greatest need in developing world&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>But the cartoon prompted a tirade of criticism on social media and in the 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