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In today’s featured cartoon, Satish Acharya illustrates the recent strike by truck drivers across India due to the changes in the law against hit-and-run cases. The cartoon brings up the point that the strike started right at the beginning of the New Year, signalling a rocky start for the ruling government.
Sajith Kumar’s cartoon is a humorous take on the Ram Mandir inauguration, which has sparked controversy among the ruling party and the opposition parties. The invitation for the inauguration, supposed to take place on 22 January, has been accepted by some and ignored by other parties, thus making it a point of contention.
Here, R Prasad’s cartoon brings together a reference to Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Nyaya Yatra. He shows how the yatras traversing India’s landscape have a similarity to the party symbol.
Sandeep Adhwaryu gives a witty yet poignant take on the artificial intelligence boom in the world, as juxtaposed with India’s unemployment crisis. While some fear AI’s takeover of jobs in different countries, unemployed Indians don’t seem to have the same problem.