NEW DELHI – Indian PM Modi arrival at the G20 summit was mocked by theInternational media outlet.
Ahead of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires when PM Modi’s arrival wasreportedly greeted by a news channel with the headline ‘Apu arrived’
Patrick Gillespie, a business reporter in Argentina, tweeted the picturewith a caption: “Argentine TV outlet @CronicaTV displays this racist imagewith the headline “Apu Arrived” as India Prime Minister @narendramodiarrives in Buenos Aires for the #G20.”
For the uninitiated, Apu is an Indian immigrant proprietor in the wildlypopular TV series The Simpsons who speaks with a rather pronounced fauxIndian accent and is noted for his catchphrase: “Thank you, come again.”
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Many, including South Asian actors, felt Apu perpetrated many of thestereotypes about Indians and was borderline racist. Actor Kal Penn said hedisliked the Simpsons because of the character. Many members of the SouthAsian community have also spoken how they are called ‘Apu’ mostly by theirwhite peers, and actors have been asked to do the faux Indian accent.
