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In today’s featured cartoon, Nala Ponnappa illustrates how times have changed as India celebrates its 74th Independence Day under strict Covid-19 lockdown and in the digital age.
Kirtish Bhatt takes a swipe at the Grand Old Party as PM Modi became India’s longest-serving non-Congress prime minister on 15 August.
Aziz focuses on the Supreme Court’s ruling that held advocate Prashant Bhushan guilty of “serious contempt” for his tweets. Bhushan, in a separate plea, had challenged the constitutional validity of the contempt law, claiming it “has the effect of threatening dissenters and critics into silence”. The plea was later withdrawn.