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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu highlights the increasing ‘growth’ in India, and indicates it comes at the cost of its “twin”, development (vikas), and the environment. The reference is to the environmental disasters in Kerala and Uttarakhand.
Sajith Kumar refers to former Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh’s statement that he’ll float a new party, and suggests that his former party, the Congress, should start a placement agency, given how many of its leaders are pursuing new political avenues.
In light of the controversy around clothing brand Fabindia’s recent advertisement “Jashn-e-Riwaaz” and the online backlash, R. Prasad invokes Rabindranath Tagore’s poem, ‘Where the mind is without fear‘ from the Gitanjali, to hope for a secular India where one will not be quick to take offence in the name of religion.
E.P. Unny gives his take on India hitting the 100-crore Covid vaccine milestone, and the positive side-effects of the vaccine.
Kirtish Bhatt takes a dig at the self-congratulation in government circles that followed India reaching the 100-crore vaccination milestone to suggest that the common too had a hand in it by participating in the drive.