The best 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.
Mir Suhail illustrates the absence of heroes to rescue 13 mine workers trapped in a rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district. Suhail takes a jibe at the ongoing operation, comparing it to the the swift July operation that recovered 12 young footballers trapped in a cave in Thailand.
In the muddy waters of TRP, the media’s priorities don’t include the Meghalaya rescue mission, says Sandeep Adhwaryu.
R. Prasad takes a potshot at Union Minister Nitin Gadkari as he makes indirect comments on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah over the the party’s failure in the assembly elections.
Mika Aziz shows Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari with a ‘Nehru handbook’ after his surprise expression of faith in former PM Jawaharlal Nehru’s path of tolerant politics.
Manjul takes a jibe at Yoga guru Ramdev’s recent take on PM Narendra Modi’s fate in the 2019 general elections. The cartoonist shows Modi as lord Ram waiting for an aid to revive his party’s fortune in the state elections while Ramdev (shown as lord Hanuman) makes a change of route to secure his interests.
Manoj Kureel takes a jibe at Modi government’s deliberate distortion of minority issues as it looks to project the Triple Talaq Bill as a solution to everything.
Karnataka chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy now finds himself in a raging controversy after a video of his telephonic conversation went viral where he was heard instructing someone to “shoot mercilessly”. Satish Acharya illustrates Kumaraswamy’s own bullet boomeranging on him.