The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.
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Sandeep Adhwaryu depicts the formerly-caged ‘parrot’ CBI investigating itself, referring to its corruption probe against special director Rakesh Asthana. The parrot has set itself on fire through the investigator’s magnifying glass.
Soham Sen depicts the CBI feud as a wild wild west-style shootout between director Alok Verma and Asthana, which a late-arriving Prime Minister Narendra Modi is now trying to rein in.
Manjul makes a dark pun on the ‘witness box’, which now takes the shape of a coffin following the sudden death of Father Kuriakose Kattuthara. The priest had testified against Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who is accused of raping a nun for over two years.
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Irfan has PM Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah marvelling at the lack of competition in the urban local body elections in Jammu and Kashmir last week.
Satish Acharya mocks PM Modi’s speech commemmorating the 75th anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose’s Azad Hind government. As Modi appropriates Bose’s famous call ‘give me your blood and I’ll give you freedom’, the late leader asks for his signature cap back.