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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu cleverly plays on the word ‘Nuh’—the site of recent communal clashes—and substitutes it with ‘No’ to deliver a biting commentary on the escalating issues of inflation and unemployment.
In a comical twist, Mika Aziz unleashes satire on the recent meeting between PM Narendra Modi and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar in Pune. The cartoon portrays Pawar and Modi in an unexpected embrace, snapping a selfie together, playfully reminding us of their political rivalry as leaders from opposing parties.
Sajith Kumar draws a parallel between a recent news story about a Japanese man spending thousands of dollars to ‘transform‘ himself into a dog and the politicians in India. With tongue firmly in cheek, he shows a television set with a screaming news anchor tied to a donkey, as if to imply that the fourth estate was doing the bidding of the country’s politicians.
Nala Ponnappa hilariously weighs in on the latest scientific survey of the Gyanvapi mosque conducted by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). The survey aims to decipher whether the mosque stands on the remnants of an ancient Hindu temple.