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In today’s featured cartoon, R. Prasad comments on Prime Minister Modi’s recent meeting with Pope Francis in Vatican City. The Pope gifted Modi a bronze plaque which featured Isaiah’s quote from the Bible, ‘the desert will become a garden’, and the cartoonist calls this the precursor to Modi’s own ‘achhe din‘ slogan.
Alok Nirantar mocks India’s common man, who sleeps through the constant hikes in fuel and gas prices but channels all his outrage towards the poor performance of Virat Kohli’s Indian cricket team in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.
Sajith Kumar applauds Virat Kohli’s recent statement in defence of his teammate Mohammed Shami, who was subject to online abuse after India lost to Pakistan last Sunday. Kohli slammed ‘spineless people’ for abusing Shami for his religion, and the cartoonist suggests political leaders could learn something from the cricket captain.
Mahamud is also all praise for Kohli’s statement, showing him leading from the front on the field as well as in chasing online trolls.
Manjul shows that PM Modi’s visit to Glasgow to attend the UN COP26 climate change summit is a chance for Indian policemen to be on ‘high alert’ and detain young climate activists like Disha Ravi.
E.P. Unny suggests that at the COP26 summit, India should present its constant petrol and diesel price hikes as a way to make fossil fuels obsolete.