The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.
The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.
Satish Acharya in Mail Today takes a jab at Union minister Jayant Sinha garlanding eight lynching convicts who were recently released on bail. The action drew sharp criticism for the minister, even from his father Yashwant Sinha, who on social media said he did not approve of it.
Alok Nirantar mocks the Kumaraswamy government in Karnataka, which is in an alliance with Congress, proposing a tax hike for petrol and diesel in its recent budget.
Pakistani cartoonist Sabir Nazar illustrates Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz seeking an intervention by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) against the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), accusing it of denying a level-playing field to parties in the upcoming general elections.
European diplomats continued to be weary of Theresa May’s compromise for a soft Brexit. Many have insisted that Britain should not be allowed to cherrypick from the EU’s rulebook.
Though it has been decided that the UK will leave the EU on 29 March 2019, the negotiations on the terms of exit have been going on since 2017. Patrick Blower’s cartoon shows that everyone is waiting for Theresa May to act.
Kevin Kallaugher, who draws under the pen name KAL, mocks the ability of the US President to negotiate with his adversaries. Russia’s Vladamir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un both seem to have taken Trump for a ride.
Cartoonist Mustapha Bulama shows Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s run for a second election at risk after the ruling party split and a faction declared that it no longer supports the Buhari government.
Tom Curry takes a dig at the US decision to separate children from their immigrant parents at the border. He suggests that the Statue of Liberty no longer belongs to US and should be taken back by France, who had originally gifted it.