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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar refers to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s US trip and his ‘friendship‘ with the country’s former president Donald Trump. This is Modi’s first visit to the US since Trump lost power and Joe Biden became the US President.
R. Prasad pokes fun at the changing geostrategic picture since the announcement of the Australia-UK-US partnership AUKUS. The US and Australia are also part of the Quad grouping with India and Japan, but the US Wednesday ruled out the possibility of including India or Japan in AUKUS.
Sajith Kumar mocks the fact that India’s digital vaccination certificate comes with PM Modi’s picture, and links it to the UK refusing to relax its travel rules for fully vaccinated Indians. The move has been slammed by Indians as being ‘racist’ and an illustration of the UK’s ‘colonial’ hang-ups.
Kirtish Bhatt takes TV news media to task for overblowing Rhea Chakraborty and other Bollywood-related drug cases, while not highlighting the case of drugs worth nearly Rs 21,000 crore being seized from Gujarat’s Mundra port, including 3,000 kg of heroin. The cartoonist depicts a reporter pitching the story to her boss, but getting shot down, as 30 grams of ‘Bollywood drugs’ will fetch more TRPs than 3,000 kg of drugs at a port.