The best 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.
For Mail Today, Satish Acharya takes a dig at the Narendra Modi government for ignoring primary issues in the monsoon session. Instead, the prime minister allows miscreants to stay under his umbrella.
Referring to the incident in Jharkhand’s Pakur town where Arya Samaj member Swami Agnivesh was beaten by a mob after allegedly speaking against Hindus and accusing the BJP government of taking away tribal people’s land, cartoonist Arvind portrays the difference in the political position of Agnivesh and PM Modi.
Cartoonist R. Prasad takes a dig at the blame game politics in the country. After Congress president Rahul Gandhi wrote a letter to PM Narendra Modi seeking support for the passage of women’s reservation bill in the Parliament, union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad wrote to Gandhi questioning the UPA government’s failure to pass the bill.
Cartoonist Sajith Kumar mocks the latest social media trend #TalkToAMuslim which aims at addressing religious discrimination in the country. Calling it just another Twitter trend, Kumar says that the real problems faced by the Muslims are completely different.
In his cartoon for News 18, Mir Suhail portrays the starvation death in a tribal family in Jharkhand and the apathy shown by the state regarding the same.
In his cartoon for the Times of India, Sandeep Adhwaryu mocks the NDA government which came to power promising ‘vikas’ (development), but has increasingly taken to demonising Muslims.