New Delhi, May 19 -- Aftenposten, Norway's largest newspaper, published an opinion piece by journalist Frank Rossavik. The article includes a cartoon of PM Modi as a snake charmer.

The headline says, "A clever and slightly annoying man".

The cartoon has set social media on fire. Users have started expressing their views on the article. It was originally published on 16 May but came to light only after PM Modi's visit to Oslo.

Numerous social media comments call the cartoon "derogatory" and "racist".

"Frank Rossavik and Aftenposten have produced a lazy, racist caricature of Prime Minister Modi as a cross-legged snake-charmer piping a fuel nozzle out of a basket, the sort of tired colonial drivel one expects from a fading European rag d...