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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar draws on former Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis’ response to allegations made by NCP leader and state minister Nawab Malik. Malik claimed Fadnavis was involved in the drugs racket, to which the BJP leader responded that the minister’s allegations were ‘fuska fataka‘ or damp fireworks. The other references are to former Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh, and former Mumbai Police commissioner Param Bir Singh.
Sandeep Adhwaryu depicts India’s ‘Iron Man’ Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel appreciating India men’s cricket team captain Virat Kohli, while also calling out Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav for evoking Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s name to call for unity.
R. Prasad takes a dig at Union Home Minister Amit Shah attack on the Congress on Sardar Patel’s birth anniversary on 1 November. Speaking in Kevadia, Gujarat, Shah said attempts were made post-Independence to “forget Patel” and his contributions.
With the COP26 summit going on in Glasgow, Sajith Kumar envisions newspaper headlines from 2030 to show what destruction climate change could bring for the world.
E.P. Unny makes a tongue-in-cheek comment on world leaders chucking coins inside the Trevi Fountain in Rome on the sidelines of the G20 summit — an old tradition for visitors to the Italian capital — as well as climate change.
Kirtish Bhatt draws on reports stating that the world’s wealthiest people are at the core of climate problem, as they consume more energy and consequently are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions. He shows a poor man saying he thought of being rich many times, but pulled himself back for the sake of the environment.