The best Indian 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.
The lead cartoon of the day by Irfan shows that even in the promised ‘achhe din‘ some days will still be bad. On Friday, Karti Chidambaram was granted bail in the money laundering case against him and the Delhi High Court overturned the Election Commission’s decision to disqualify 20 AAP MLAs, which was not very good news for the Modi government.
Satish Acharya in Mail Today has a witty reading of the Rajya Sabha election results for the 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh. While the newly formed SP-BSP alliance won crucial seats like Yogi Adityanath’s constituency Gorakhpur, in the Rajya Sabha elections, the BJP wrested the ninth seat from the alliance amidst high drama.
Many cartoonists continued to deal with the Facebook data breach by Cambridge Analytica. Kirtish Bhatt in BBC Hindi shows that the ‘Like’ button on Facebook has been actually a ‘leak’ button for the company to use and share personal data. Manjul in Mid-Day depicts how political parties do not need Facebook data to win votes, ‘news’ circulated through WhatsApp is enough to influence Indians.
Gokul Gopalakrishnan in The Asian Age News tackled the 10×4 metre walls the UIDAI says protects Aadhaar data in the country. The cartoonists say the walls are fortified by the thick skin and skulls of people who think the walls are enough security.
