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Empire's Tower of Babel
Bloomfield Township, Mich.
I enjoyed R.O. Blechman's June 23 "Comix Nation" cartoon, "Calcutta 2010," for its humor--intended and unintended. Blechman seems to have unintentionally participated in the hubris of empire even as he poked fun at it. He has a Calcuttan asking, "Why can't these Americans speak proper Hindi?" But the language of Calcutta is Bengali, spoken by more than 204 million people. It's like calling a cartoon "Paris 2010" and asking, "Why can't these Americans speak proper German?"
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