The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.
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Live and let die
Cartoonist Satish Acharya mocks the politics over late DMK chief M. Karunanidhi’s burial. The Madras High Court allowed space for the burial at Marina Beach, which was initially opposed by the ruling party, AIADMK.
Old people sayings
R. Prasad draws a parallel between the saying “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”, in the context of the politics over Karunanidhi’s burial.
The horror, the horror
Police Monday rescued 24 girls from a shelter home in Deoria, Uttar Pradesh, after a 10-year-old escaped and informed them about her ordeal. After the recent case in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, Irfan depicts the horror that shelter homes have become for girls.
In and out
Hemant Morparia takes a dig at the National Register of Citizens exercise in Assam, depicting an officer classifying people as In-dian and Out-sider.
A call for justice
Suhail Naqshbandi depicts the case of Talib Hussain, a key witness in the Kathua gangrape-and-murder case, who has claimed he was subjected to custodial torture by the J&K police, for an alleged fake rape case. The Supreme Court has responded to Hussain’s plea and sought a response from the state government.
Larger than life
Sandeep Adhwaryu pays homage to the larger-than-life Karunanidhi and J. Jayalalithaa, depicting that the current lot of politicians in Tamil Nadu — including superstar actors Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth — have a long way to go before people look up to them the way they did to the departed leaders.