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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu imagines Mahatma Gandhi in heaven, listening to Elvis Presley records and trying to make sense of why US President Donald Trump would compare Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the American performer.
Alok Nirantar takes a dig at the troubled Shiv Sena-BJP alliance in Maharashtra, pointing out that the saffron party’s proposal doesn’t match up to the Sena’s tall demands.
From awarding a Padma Vibhushan to launching an ED probe, Manjul comments on the irony of BJP’s ever-changing stance towards Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar.
Kirtish Bhatt cheekily points out that Mahatma Gandhi and Prime Minister Modi are really different kinds of ‘fathers’.
Satish Acharya pokes fun at the country’s current state of affairs.
Mir Suhail pays tribute to Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate change activist who has quite literally taken the world’s environmental issues upon her shoulders.
Whoever was the creator of the Gandhi cartoon must have been unaware that on January 2, 2003, the top representative of India to the United States and a former Foreign Minister Ambassador Lalit Mansingh referred to Elvis Presley as follows. And I quote ” It is difficult to imagine two more dissimilar personalities than Elvis Presley and Mahatma Gandhi. And yet the words of Elvis Presley are strangely close to Gandhi’s thinking when he said that he dreamt of an India where he would be able to wipe the last tears of the last child, words reminiscent to what Elvis once said and I quote “I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling that he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world” Unquote That those words by the Ambassador immedtaey followed his attending the inaugural ceremony held at the National Civil Rights Museum for the 35th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s death, is a testament to the admiration felt for an American who touched the lives of millions worldwide.