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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar draws on the chaos that has engulfed the Shiv Sena after the Election Commission declared Saturday that neither the Uddhav Thackeray-led nor Eknath Shinde-led faction will be able to use the party’s name or symbol — a bow and arrow — for the Andheri East assembly bypoll.
Irshad Kaptan gives his take on back-to-back instances of cattle colliding with the newly inaugurated Gandhinagar-Mumbai Vande Bharat Express. In the illustration, a man waiting at a railway crossing asks another, “Railway crossing closed? Is this the time for a train to pass,” to which the man responds: “Mister! This is the time for buffaloes to pass…”
Kirtish Bhatt comments on the rupee falling to an all-time low of 82.67 against the American Dollar. In the illustration, a man can be seen handing over a currency note to another before saying: “Nothing to worry about. Take this hundred rupee note. Get back one dollar and tell them to keep the change.”
R. Prasad pokes fun at the Indian Railways for renaming Bangalore-Mysore Tipu Express to Wodeyar Express while alluding to how the then Governor-General of India, Richard Wellesley, reinstated the Wodeyar king of Mysore after the death of Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War in 1799. Wellesley’s younger brother Arthur — the future Duke of Wellington who would go on to defeat Napoleon at Waterloo — was one of the British commanders involved in Tipu’s final defeat at Seringapatam.
Nala Ponnappa alludes to US President Joe Biden sounding the alarm last week over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s remarks involving nuclear weapons. The reference is to a purported remark by Albert Einstein after World War 2: “I know not with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.”