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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu criticises the government’s decision to remove chapters related to the Mughals from the NCERT History book. These changes will be implemented from the current academic session (2023-24).
Kirtish Bhatt highlights Elon Musk changing Twitter logo from the classic blue bird logo to the popular Doge meme, featuring the image of a Shiba Inu. At first, people thought that this was an April Fool’s day prank by the SpaceX and Tesla CEO. A few days earlier, Musk had urged a judge to throw out a lawsuit accusing him of “running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.”
Alok Nirantar takes potshots at PM Narendra Modi for his message to the CBI that it should not be scared to take action against people who have been part of the government and the system for several years. The cartoon highlights what the opposition claims is the ‘misuse’ of federal agencies by the government to target it.
Nala Ponnappa | Twitter @PonnappaCartoonNala Ponnappa draws on the wave of opposition parties questioning the Prime Minister’s educational qualifications even after the Gujarat High Court quashed CIC’s order directing Gujarat University to provide details on PM Modi’s degrees.
E.P. Unny draws a reference from Charles Dicken’s classic ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ to sum up the saga surrounding disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha. The Congress leader was granted bail after he filed an appeal against a criminal defamation case in a Surat court, which had sentenced him to two years in prison for a remark that he made at a rally in Karnataka’s Kolar district in 2019.