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In today’s featured cartoon, Satish Acharya alludes to the recent incident at the Hyderabad rally where a woman climbed a light tower to get Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attention. He immediately requested that she climb down. The cartoonist draws an ironical illustration where the public can be seen requesting the PM to look at the ground reality of the country.
The day after the Diwali celebration, the national capital was seen engulfed in a thick smog. Here, Sandeep Adhwaryu expresses a depressed state of mind, as the ignorance of the public and government authorities has led to a toxic atmosphere.
On Jawaharlal Nehru’s birthday, which is also celebrated as Children’s Day, Sajith Kumar illustrates a concerned Nehru alerting a child about the ‘fake’ personification of his ideologies in the current political arena.
Drawing on the concept of ‘Good over Evil’, Nala Ponappa draws on the ‘double standards’ displayed by British PM Rishi Sunak as he celebrated Diwali and invited people to the celebrations, and on the other hand, fired former Secretary of Home Department Suella Braverman after she wrote an article criticising UK police handling of pro-Palestinians protests.