April 16, 2007

04-16-2007: Not Lost in Translation


Happened to stumble on this cartoon in a Chinese newspaper in my office. Since it had our venerable prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh and the Chinese premier Wen Jiabao on it, I took it to a colleague who speaks Mandarin, to figure out what exactly it is saying.

The message was quite clear and had the right dose of wit. The first picture depicts the overall Indo-Chinese relations, while the second one is the more thorny issue of Tibet. Not all was lost in translation. The power of cartoons I say.

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