This cartoon celebrating ISRO’s historic satellite launch has India talking

Twitter kept buzzing with reactions, some congratulatory, others proud, while a few taking a dig at neighbouring countries, especially Pakistan. Hilarious memes and gifs flooded the social media, and a few even compared ISRO’s achievements with that of NASA. However, whenever ISRO does something spectacular, one cartoon resurfaces every single time, and this time too was no exception. The arguably distasteful cartoon published by the New York Times in 2014 weighing in ISRO’s Mangalyaan mission.

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The cartoon which showed a farmer with a cow knocking at the door of a room marked Elite Space Club, were criticised severely not only by Indians as well as people from elsewhere, had even forced the leading daily to issue a public apology. However, even three years later, people are not done with it.

This time, scores of people on Twitter and the Times of India newspaper responded to the controversial NYT cartoon, and it has created a lot of buzz on social media. The cartoon drawn by cartoonist Sandeep Adhwaryu has a flip of situations in which India, being at the forefront of space research, sits inside the “Elite Space Club” and The United States and other countries knock on the door with rockets in hand! It’s significant as of the 104 satellites, 101 were foreign satellites launched by PSLV on Wednesday and 96 were from the US. India’s space agency charges substantially less than its competitors in Europe and North America making it popular.

Here’s how the cartoons has India talking
https://twitter.com/sastryrrnv/status/832492509288873984

https://twitter.com/DDave87/status/832489318618771456

https://twitter.com/shahansh22/status/832450218188632064

https://twitter.com/sanjaybafna/status/832439726909095936
https://twitter.com/JournalistIyer/status/832287995709517824
https://twitter.com/RajputAvinash48/status/832432479579602944

https://twitter.com/KRK_way/status/832467806557872128

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