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In today’s featured cartoon, R. Prasad — referring to the moniker of “God’s own country” bestowed on Kerala — draws on the gruesome murder of two women as part of a black magic ritual in Kerala’s Elanthoor. Police suspect that the three suspects arrested in the case allegedly “tortured and murdered” the women and offered them as “human sacrifice”.
While alluding to the tussle between the AAP and BJP in poll-bound Gujarat, Sandeep Adhwaryu gives his take on AAP MLA Rajendra Pal Gautam’s resignation as a minister in the Kejriwal government following a controversy over his presence at a mass conversion event.
Satish Acharya refers to Shiv Sena founder later Bal Thackeray’s image as a fiery orator in the backdrop of Uddhav Thackeray-led faction of the Sena being allotted a ‘flaming torch’ symbol by the Election Commission ahead of the Andheri East assembly bypoll.
Peering into the space age, Sunil Agarwal and Ajit Ninan take a jibe at karva chauth, the annual Hindu ritual wherein a wife observe a day-long fast to pray for her husband’s long life.
Alok Nirantar draws on Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s visit to a vegetable market in Chennai earlier this month while referring to her comments about ‘onions’ in 2019. Sitharaman, while responding to questions about steps taken by the government to check rising prices of onion, had said in Parliament: “I don’t eat much of onion and garlic.”