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In today’s featured cartoon, Kirtish Bhatt pokes fun at TV news for exploring the political implications of Rahul Gandhi ditching the ‘Marxian beard’ he sported throughout the Bharat Jodo Yatra for a dapper look as pictures surfaced of the Congress leader delivering a lecture at UK’s Cambridge University. In the illustration, a TV news anchor is seen saying, “Let’s see how this impacts the country’s politics and the lives of the common citizen.”
Sandeep Adhwaryu suggests that supporters of the central government affected by the hike in cooking gas prices can migrate to self-proclaimed godman Swami Nithyananda’s fictional country ‘Kailasa’ if low cost of living and high delusion are what they seek.
Adding to the debate over the hike in cooking gas prices, Satish Acharya gives his take on how Indians continue to vote on the basis of polarising issues rather than cost of living.
Manjul narrates the despair unleashed by deforestation to highlight how thousands of trees are axed in the name of development without little or no concern for how to reverse the damage caused by these actions to the environment.