The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print, online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.
In today’s featured cartoon, Nala Ponnappa alludes to the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan-3 moon mission. Lander Vikram is due to reach the surface on 23 August.
Sajith Kumar takes a dig at the recent Ashoka University row, where its economic professor Sabyasachi Das resigned after a paper he authored on possible manipulation in the 2019 elections drew the ire of BJP leaders and their supporters.
Cartoonist Satish Acharya here gives a satirical take on Zee News editor Sudhir Chaudhary’s question on the tomato price hike from Union Minister Smriti Irani, to which the politician said he was trivialising the issue.
Mika Aziz takes a dig at Bibek Debroy, the chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, who called for a new Constitution but later said those were his personal views and not those of the EAC or the government.