Chinky or oriental?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 12/09/2009

The ToI decided to be politically correct in one place but not in the other while running the same story. Its e-paper dated September 12 said, in a story on foreign varsities coming to India, ¿¿White skin or chinky eyes aren't a common feature even in India's top educational institutions, the IITs and IIMs¿¿. Its website had a sanitized version of that: here it said ¿¿White skin or Oriental eyesâ€¦"

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