Many supporters for Charlie Hebdo have highlighted a "Freedom of Speech" defense, when they were attacked after the original cartoon. And now as well.
What happened with respect to the shortage of oxygen in India, is inexcusable. Wonder though whether this paper highlighted the plight of Italians, who were being treated in the streets of their cities or the unclaimed bodies in the US. This pandemic has put to test the health infrastructure of every country in the world, including the rich ones. I saw a video today of Oxygen laden tankers that have no takers in India and are being parked on the streets. In the same light there were 750 unclaimed bodies in refrigerated trucks in New York, even after year. The Western press made hay, triumphantly walking through the burning pyres in the crematoriums/crematoria, or on the banks of the Ganges. Or interviewing vulnerable Indians while the bodies of their loved ones were being cremated. It was nothing sort of desecration. I don't believe anyone in the West would let a Press guy broadcast from their graveyard/cemetery, while hundreds were being buried. It was a sickening sight. I don't believe that the Indian press got anywhere close to telecasting the sad scenes in the US or in Italy or France. It is perhaps easy to mock at India, and its people, with no fear of any retribution. https://people.com/health/bodies-of-750-covid-victims-are-still-sitting-in-refrigerated-trucks-in-nyc-a-year-later/ Naguesh Bhatcar ________________________________ From: Goanet <goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org> on behalf of Frederick Noronha <fredericknoron...@gmail.com> True. Neither can the put some sense in these "funny" cartoonists heads! On Fri, 28 May 2021 at 02:29, Roland Francis <roland.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: > If all the gods between them cannot produce medical oxygen for their > gasping devotees then what good are they? > > Roland. > > > On May 27, 2021, at 3:49 PM, Frederick Noronha < > fredericknoron...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > What truth? That one expects the gods to produce oxygen? FN > > > > On Fri, 28 May 2021 at 00:19, Roland Francis <roland.fran...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Bad taste or not, is there truth in it? > >> > >> Roland. > >> > >>> On May 27, 2021, at 6:03 AM, Frederick Noronha < > >> fredericknoron...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Sounds rather tactless and misplaced to me. Not just because it makes > fun > >>> of someone else's beliefs, but as its definitely very badly timed too. > >>> There should be a ban on people (cartoonists or whoever) mocking > someone > >>> else's beliefs: > >>> > >>> > >> > https://theprint.in/world/33-mn-gods-not-one-producing-oxygen-charlie-hebdo-releases-cartoon-on-indias-covid-crisis/657860/ > >>> >
