The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.
In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu puns on ‘bite’ to show that the media is ignoring the actual poor and hungry people in India in its coverage of the country’s dismal showing on the Global Hunger Index 2021.
Manjul refers to the attacks by terrorists in Kashmir on labourers, a gol-gappa hawker and a carpenter from UP and Bihar this month, and links it to PM Narendra Modi’s 2018 comment on self-employment through selling pakodas.
R. Prasad mocks the silence from the ‘G-23’ camp following the public snub by the high command at the Congress Working Committee meeting.
Sajith Kumar comments on the loss of lives and livelihoods in landslides and flash floods in Kerala, and calls it a result of ignoring the 2011 report by ecologist Madhav Gadgil on ways to preserve the Western Ghats, which he depicts as lying at the bottom of the Arabian Sea alongside a ‘climate change is real’ sign.
E.P. Unny draws a parallel between the historic second term of Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front in Kerala, and the recent natural calamity that has hit the state.