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In today’s featured cartoon, Satish Acharya weighs in on an advertisement by a Pakistani channel that mocked the captivity of IAF pilot Abhinandan Varthaman. The ad featured a man sporting a moustache similar to Varthaman in an Indian cricket team jersey having a cup of tea, which is just like the video released by Pakistan Army after he was captured following the Balakot air strike.
Hemant Morparia suggests that social reformer Gopal Krishna Gokhale’s remarks, ‘What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow,’ may now seem to imply just the opposite if the current political situation in Bengal is anything to go by.
Nala Ponnappa | TwitterNala Ponnappa weighs in on Bengaluru’s vanishing lakes. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) had last week submitted a memo to the Karnataka High Court, stating BBMP had 168 lakes in its possession, 17 of which had lost the characteristics of lake.
Sajith Kumar weighs in on the remarks made by former chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian that India’s GDP growth in the period 2011-12 to 2016-17 is likely to have been overestimated.
R. Prasad takes a dig at The New York Times for deciding to stop running daily political cartoons in its international edition.
Manjul weighs in on the Supreme Court’s remarks over arrest of journalist Prashant Kanojia for a tweet on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The SC had said Right to Liberty, a fundamental right, is non-negotiable. The top court also asked the UP government why was Kanojia arrested and under what provisions.
Alok Nirantar takes a potshot at the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance.