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Today’s featured cartoon is a celebration of the triumphant rescue of 41 labourers that were stuck when a tunnel collapsed in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi region. After 17 days inside, the labourers finally came out safely on 28 November.
Alok Nirantar pays homage to Charlie Munger, the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, who passed away on 29 November at 99. Munger was an investor, an industrialist, and a close partner of Warren Buffett.
Sajith Kumar’s poignant cartoon draws parallels between casteism in India and the rescue operation to save labourers in Uttarakhand. He points out the recent incident in Tamil Nadu, where two Dalit youths were thrashed and urinated at when they asked for water.
E P Unny’s cartoon, too, refers to the rescue of the 41 labourers in Uttarkashi. He points out the metaphorical significance of the event. After international machines failed, it was rat miners that came to the rescue, quite literally, and saved the lives of the labourers, most of them migrant workers.