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In today’s featured cartoon, Sajith Kumar relies on an imagined R-Day parade tableau to poke fun at the government’s efforts to shield and boost PM Modi’s image — from banning the BBC documentary ‘India: The Modi Question‘, to celebrating the G20 presidency.
With a group holding a recitation of Hanuman Chalisa outside a movie theatre in MP to protest Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Pathaan, Kirtish Bhatt depicts how the gathering could be mistaken for a regular kirtan. In the illustration, a cop tells a family outside a movie theatre, “This is not a temple, it’s a movie hall. There is no prasad to be distributed here.”
Manjul draws on the central government’s criticism of the two-part BBC documentary examining then CM Modi’s handling of the 2002 Gujarat riots in the backdrop of calls for a boycott of Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and John Abraham-starrer Pathaan.
Nala Ponnappa alludes to reports suggesting that the Indian IT sector witnessed over 30,000 layoffs in the last two years, and that nearly 80,000 Indian IT professionals on H1B and L1 visas, laid off by big tech firms, are now scrambling for jobs in the US.
Irfan gives his take on a viral video of Tamil Nadu minister and DMK leader S.M. Nasar hurling a stone at a party worker over delay in fetching him a chair in a public meeting.
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