The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.
The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.
Satish Acharya takes a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comment referring to the Congress as a “lollipop company” and taking a dig at the farm loan waivers announced by the latter.
Surendra shows Prime Minister Narendra Modi heading for a rough landing in 2019 as his balloon of promises begins to deflate.
Mahamud illustrates how India’s main political parties wooed the Indian farmer — whether it was the promise of acche din, or better days, by the BJP-led NDA government, or the farm loan waivers by the Congress in the states where it recently came to power.
Uttam takes a potshot at how several key institutions in India, such as the RBI, CBI, EC and the UGC, were hit in the past year of the Narendra Modi government.
As a new year begins, Nala Ponnappa depicts the blame-game in store between the mighty pen and the would-be newsmakers in 2019.
Satish Acharya for SIFY illustrates an old and weary Narendra Modi, with an hour-glass and a demon-axe suggesting his term as Prime Minister could be nearing its end while most of his exuberant claims shrink into the void.