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In today’s featured cartoon, Satish Acharya presents the picture of a ‘new India’, the one where hate speech is apparently encouraged more than good work.
Cartoonist R. Prasad alludes to the ongoing India-Canada diplomatic row and the US ambassador’s statement on intelligence-sharing among the five-member alliance “Five Eyes” — about Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s murder. He questions the alliance’s effectiveness as American terrorist David Coleman Headley made five trips to Mumbai to scout 26/11 targets, and went undetected.
Mika Aziz shows hate speakers the gallows — one which has a garland for a noose — suggesting that those who incite hatred among people continue to go unpunished.
Cartoonist Manjul calls out educational institutions for lack of proper atmosphere or curriculum on environment studies, hinting that education had become merely a business.
Cartoonist Nala Ponnappa fervently wishes that ISRO can wake up Chandrayaan-3’s lander and rover modules, hoping the duo will survive the freezing lunar night.