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.
Cartoonist Sanket Jack mocks Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s statement that Coca Cola’s founder was once a “shikanji wala (lemonade seller)”, by reimagining an old ad for the beverage.
In Mid-Day, Manjul seeks to predict the book that might result from Rahul’s efforts to pen a masterpiece like his great-grandfather’s The Discovery of India.
Sandeep Adhwaryu, in The Times of India, takes a dig at Rahul’s many controversial statements over the years. “When life gives you lemons…”
In BBC Hindi, Kirtish Bhatt offers a take on the historic meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, which was believed to be an impossibility as recently as a few months ago.
In Asian Age, Gokul Gopalakrishnan suggests that the real ‘one belt, one road’ worrying PM Modi had nothing to do with China at all.
In Sify, Satish Acharya suggests that while Kim Jong-un may have agreed to denuclearise North Korea, Donald Trump was unlikely to give up his nukes — his words.
In The Indian Express, Mika Aziz suggests that nuclear-armed US and North Korea were walking a tightrope at the Singapore meeting.
Meanwhile, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor posted a cartoon depicting the perception of critics that Trump often seems more driven than the US’ adversaries to destroy the country.