The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.
In today’s featured cartoon, Nala Ponnappa’s takes a dig at the inebriated male passenger aka ‘Mr. I. P. Freely’ who urinated on a woman in the business class of an Air India flight in November 2022. The passenger has now been identified as Shankar Mishra.
Alok Nirantar’s comic, too, highlights repeated incidents of unruly air passengers creating nuisance during flights. There have been incidents where cabin crew members have even lost their cool at difficult passengers.
Sandeep Adhwaryu depicts how the Supreme Court’s decision has come as a ray of hope to over 4,000 families who were facing the possibility of eviction from railway land in Haldwani in the middle of a brutal winter.
Sajith Kumar takes a jibe at Karnataka BJP president Nalin Kumar Kateel’s advice to party workers, asking them to focus on fighting ‘love jihad‘ instead of ‘small issues’ such as road and sewage issues. Karnataka will go to polls this year.
Kirtish Bhatt’s cartoon refers to the Pushkar Singh Dhami-led BJP government in Uttarakhand which recently weathered ground slip of another kind unlike the latest in Joshimath — public outrage over irregularities in recruitment exams and the murder of a teenager that put a question mark on the CM himself.