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Cupid struck by stupid’s arrow & to tea or not to tea, ask the EC

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In today’s featured cartoon, Sajith Kumar depicts the occupational hazards for cupid — ancient Roman god of love — in the age of ‘love jihad’, in the backdrop of controversial remarks made last week by Karnataka-based Sri Ram Sene’s chief Pramod Muthalik, who while addressing a public meeting in Bagalkot Sunday told supporters, “I am instructing our workforce, if we lose one Hindu girl (to love jihad), we must trap 10 Muslim women.”

Alok Nirantar | Twitter @caricatured
Alok Nirantar | Twitter @caricatured

Alok Nirantar illustrates the predicament Uddhav and son Aaditya Thackeray find themselves in after EC’s order to allot the name ‘Shiv Sena’ and party symbol ‘bow and arrow’ to the faction led by Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde. Dismissing the ‘test of legislative majority’ applied by the EC, Thackeray has challenged the order in the SC.

Satish Acharya | Twitter @satishacharya
Satish Acharya | Twitter @satishacharya

Alluding to the rapport shared by PM Narendra Modi and former US president Donald Trump, Satish Acharya suggests that while External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s remark “old, rich, opinionated and dangerous” may have been directed at billionaire George Soros, it could as easily apply to another American billionaire, a Republican from Florida.

E P Unny | Twitter @unnycartoonist
E P Unny | Twitter @unnycartoonist

E.P. Unny gives his take on the ambivalence prevailing in Maharashtra’s power corridors where BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis, after setting the table, had to relegate the chair reserved for the head of the family to Sena’s Eknath Shinde.

Manjul | Twitter @MANJULtoons | ET prime
Manjul | Twitter @MANJULtoons | ET prime

Manjul pokes fun at high-net-worth individuals for advocating measures to combat climate change in the backdrop of a UN-backed report concluding that the ‘Global elite produce almost half greenhouse emissions’ responsible for climate change.

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