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In today’s featured cartoon, Nala Ponnappa alludes to garden gnomes — lawn ornaments fashioned after mythological creatures — while referring to efforts by Indian authorities to step up genome sequencing to find a new variant of Covid-19 in the backdrop of the central government ordering a nationwide mock drill to prepare for a surge in cases of infection.
Kirtish Bhatt, too, draws on the nationwide mock drill to heighten preparedness for a possible surge in Covid-19 cases, while recalling the black market for coronavirus-related drugs that reared its head during the pandemic. In the illustration, a member of the ‘black market gang’ is heard saying: “I just remembered that we should also do a mock drill.”
Alluding to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the samadhi (memorial) of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, E.P. Unny comments on the uproar over an alleged hate speech delivered by BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur in Karnataka’s Shivamogga.
Sandeep Adhwaryu gives his take on BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur’s remarks — which the opposition has termed incendiary — during a function in Karnataka where she called on Hindus to “keep weapons” in their homes.
Satish Acharya uses his canvas to illustrate the Telangana High Court’s decision to transfer the probe into the alleged poaching of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLAs from a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Telangana police to the CBI.