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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu mocks the revelation that an ex-CEO of the National Stock Exchange (NSE), Chitra Ramakrishna, was consulting a faceless ‘yogi’ — whom she had never met — over email to make key business decisions during her tenure from 2013 and 2016 , and leaking confidential information to him. This came to light as part of a six-year probe by the market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), which is also not spared by the cartoonist.
Satish Acharya takes a dig at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s comment last week that if voters don’t keep the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in power in the ongoing state elections, it won’t take long for UP “to become Kashmir, Kerala or Bengal”.
Alok Nirantar depicts Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching an attack on the Congress in Punjab during his rally in Jalandhar Monday. Modi was accompanied by Captain Amarinder Singh, now the BJP’s ally who, before quitting the Congress last year, was chief minister of Punjab for 4.5 years out of the current government’s five-year tenure.
R. Prasad refers to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) comments on the ongoing row over the hijab being banned in educational institutions in Karnataka. The group of 57 Muslim countries expressed “deep concern” over the controversy, which was dismissed by India. Vasudhaiva kutumbakam (‘the world is one family’) is a Sanskrit phrase that’s much favoured by the government, while mamaji and tauji are Hindi words for ‘uncle’.
E.P. Unny alludes to the criticism that India has been silent on the Russia-Ukraine crisis, while the ongoing election campaign in Punjab has seen a focus on security at the border with Pakistan.
Sajith Kumar comments on low voter turnout in the ongoing assembly elections, as well as the donkey population in India, which is in decline according to a study published in January.
Manjul joins the music lovers in mourning noted singer-composer Bappi Lahiri, who passed away Wednesday aged 69. Lahiri’s had a well-known fondness for gold.