Far left propaganda magazine The Caravan is accused of stealing artwork of a Netherlands based artist in its latest issue attacking External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar.
The Netherlands based artist, ‘Ghostly_t’, on its Instagram profile has shared that far left propaganda The Caravan stole their artwork for the cover. “Give credit, don’t steal artists works”, they added in the message. In subsequent story, the artist shared original artwork that appeared on the cover image of The Caravan.
Dr Jaishankar has come under fire by the leftist cabal after he criticised American billionaire George Soros for trying to interfere in India’s internal affairs right before 2024 general elections in what appears like meddling in electoral politics in India. In its March 2023 edition, The Caravan had attacked Dr Jaishankar and written a cover story on him being Modi government’s ‘Hindu nationalist foreign policy’ as if it were a bad thing.
By the time of this report, The Caravan has not yet reacted to allegations.
Update: After OpIndia article was published, The Caravan has acknowledged stealing someone else’s artwork without credit. In a series of tweets, The Caravan claimed that a freelance visual artist named Samyak Prajapati was hired for the cover image of the edition and claimed they had no knowledge of some other artist’s artwork being used by Samyak Prajapati who was hired by them.
At the time that the cover was finalised, the publication was not made aware that the background design of the piece referred to Tijana's existing work. This inclusion to the over-all piece was also made without Tijana's knowledge. (3/4)
— The Caravan (@thecaravanindia) March 2, 2023
Caravan claimed that they have added credit to original artist Tijana in their cover image.
