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.
Cartoonist Sajith Kumar uses the World Environment Day to paint a message of political apathy towards farmers, many of whom are driven to commit suicide.
Observed Tuesday, 5 June, the World Environment Day also forms the backdrop of E.P. Unny’s cartoon for The Indian Express, where he suggests that Kashmiris need reprieve from plastic too, but of a very particular kind. Plastic pellets were introduced as a means for crowd-control in the Valley after the rubber variety resulted in grievous injuries among protesters.
Many cartoonists sought to mock BJP chief Amit Shah’s meeting with Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray despite the latter announcing its decision to part ways. In Mail Today, Satish Acharya does a retake on a cartoon by the legendary R.K. Laxman in 1990, depicting the late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, the architect of the alliance, and the late Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray.
Hemant Morparia suggests Uddhav knew the BJP would rush to woo his party now that their efforts to form the government in Karnataka had failed.
Manjul suggests every day is environment day in Mamata Banerjee’s Bengal as she nurtures her own party, whose symbol is the grass flower, at the cost of political violence in the state.
