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.
The dominant theme for cartoons of the day was Salman Khan’s conviction in the 1998 black buck poaching case. The lead cartoon by Manjul pokes fun at the actor’s style of keeping his sunglasses on his collar, only now they have been replaced by handcuffs.
Mir Suhail in News18 shows how finally Salman Khan was put behind the bars by the blackbuck. Cartoonist Kirtish Bhatt posted an old cartoon of his where he jokes that Salman Khan may elude the court, but never the relentless media.
Irfan mocks Madhya Pradesh’s decision to put seers in ministerial posts to appease people.
Appupen in News Laundry pays tribute to legendary cartoonist R. K. Laxman and his ‘common man’. He shows him becoming Hulk from a quiet Bruce Banner with the various pressures, like demonetisation, GST, Aadhaar linking, on the common man.
(Sadhus get ministerial positions in Madhya Pradesh
One person to another: Now he is not preaching, but listening to people)
(“Our reporters are deployed everywhere, Salman may escape the law, but not our channel”)
