The pro-China tilt of “the world’s most readable newspaper“, The Hindu, used to be grist for the gossip mills, till one of the warring brothers of the family-owned newspaper himself decided to put it on record. An incident in Delhi on Thursday involving China’s ambassador to India underlines the insinuation some more.
At a function to promote the Xijiang province of China, Ambassador Zhang Yan was asked by a business journalist about a distorted map of India, showing parts of Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh as being a part of China. By most news reports, the ambassador asked the reporter to “shut up” and then tried to make peace.
Below are the headlines from some newspapers:
The Times of India: “Distorted map puts China envoy in spot”
Hindustan Times: “China gets map wrong, envoy yells ‘shut up’”
Indian Express: “China envoy in row over India map”
The Pioneer: “China envoy tells scribe to ‘shut up’”
Asian Age: “Chinese envoy tells a journo to ‘shut up’”
Mail Today: “Envoy snubs journo for raising map issue”
The Statesman: “Spat over India map”
The Economic Times: “ [...]
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