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In today’s featured cartoon, Vishnu Madhav gives his take on veteran Congress leader A.K. Antony’s son Anil — who was formerly in charge of the social media unit of Congress in Kerala — joining the BJP. In the illustration, Antony asks Sonia and Rahul Gandhi if they “have anything for the boy”, followed by “If you give him a mobile phone, he won’t need anything else”. Rahul then hands Anil a phone which he uses to ‘match’ with the BJP. A dejected Antony is then seen telling the Gandhis: “I have nothing more to say about this.”
Sajith Kumar too pokes fun at the Congress, while alluding to A.K. Antony’s son Anil and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy being the latest in a line of party leaders to join the BJP.
Highlighting the perils of historical revisionism, Satish Acharya comments on the removal of chapters on the Mughals from history textbooks.
Kirtish Bhatt too alludes to the removal of chapters on the Mughal Empire from history textbooks. In the illustration, a parent tells a school staffer, “Now that you will teach fewer chapters, reduce the fee.”
Alok Nirantar draws on the RBI’s decision to pause the hike in repo rate at which it lends to banks. So far, the central bank has raised the repo rate by 250 basis points cumulatively since May 2022.