The best Indian 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.
As Anna Hazare starts his latest indefinite hunger strike, this time against the Modi government for not setting up the Lokpal, cartoonist Alok Niranatar shows how both Manmohan Singh and the current prime minister are facing the wrath of the octogenarian. Hazare’s last Lokpal strike in 2011 had hit the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government and the cartoon questions whether the latest strike will do the same.
Mujaid Alam Bakerwal, a cartoonist from Kashmir, shows the Pakistani Army being too busy with India to even notice the growing Taliban problem in their backyard, which resulted in the Raiwind blast.
Ishtayeque Ansari, targets Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for his statements about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after the Cambridge Analytica data breach. Ansari says Zuckerberg may not even need to use Facebook to get Indians’ personal data.
Nala Ponappa illustrates the stereotypical Indian politician: one that takes bribes and considers themselves to be unique.
A bank in Chhattisgarh asked the family of a farmer, who committed suicide, to pay back his loans. Sagar Kumar shows the irony of the move, considering banks seem to be incapable of getting industrialists like Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi to repay their large debts.
(Headline: In Chattisgarh, a farmer committed suicide due to debt and the bank asked his wife and six daughters to repay.
A man carries sack saying ‘From Mallya to Nirav Rs 20,000 crore bank scams’
Farmer skeleton: Give me some more time, I’ll pay my loan in my next birth)
First Cartoon is not by “Mujaid Alam Bakerwal” .
Original Cartoonist – Manoj Kureel