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In today’s featured cartoon, Manjul uses a meme that has become popular on Twitter, in which people share their childhood memories without stating their age, to comment on rising communal polarisation in India by harking back to an era seen as more harmonious.
Sajith Kumar takes a dig at former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who wrote to Twitter to express his concerns about the growth in the number of people following his account having slowed to “nearly zero”.
Sandeep Adhwaryu depicts the final handover of national carrier Air India to the Tata group Thursday, which brought a long process involving politicians and administrative officials to an end.
Alluding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 2018 book Exam Warriors, R. Prasad brings to light the ongoing protest by jobseekers in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar over a Railway Recruitment Board exam held a few months ago. As the protests turned violent, six police officers in Prayagraj were suspended after videos of them thrashing protesters went viral, while a train coach was set on fire in Gaya.
With assembly polls coming up in five states, Kirtish Bhatt illustrates politicians getting back to their usual electoral calculations after a break on Republic Day. Saying that ‘unity in diversity’ was only for 26 January, a politician asks local residents about their religion and caste.