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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu refers to the rising prices of lemons across the country which saw a huge spike last week — in particular, selling for as much as Rs 350 a kg in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh’s capital. He juxtaposes this equal-opportunity misery with the bulldozers used to raze properties of riot accused — largely Muslims — in the state’s Khargone district following the violence on Ram Navami.
With communal clashes having occurred in several Indian states on Ram Navami, Alok Nirantar has a word of advice from neighbouring Sri Lanka, currently in the middle of an economic meltdown, which has seen conflict among the dominant Sinhala Buddhist population, largely Hindu Tamils, and Muslims.
With a bulldozer-headed judge saying, “Let’s start the proceedings,” Kirtish Bhatt questions the role of the courts, which have not stopped the Madhya Pradesh government’s demolition drive.
While alluding to the antiquity of the Tamil language, Nala Ponnappa comments on Home Minister Amit Shah’s recent remark that people from different states should communicate in Hindi, “the language of India”, sparking a political row over the spectre of ‘Hindi imposition’.
Satish Acharya on how history was made by two performances in the second week of IPL 2022. when Australian Test captain and bowler Pat Cummins hit a half-century in 14 balls — equalling K.L. Rahul’s record — to lead the Kolkata Knight Riders to victory over the Mumbai Indians. And Rahul Tewatia gave a thrilling victory to the Gujarat Titans over the Punjab Kings by hitting two sixes in the last two balls.