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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu compares how politicians treat voters before and after an election — the last phase of polling in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections was on 7 March (Monday) — to how men treat women on and after International Women’s Day on 8 March (Tuesday).
Nala Ponnappa alludes to civilian deaths — the UN has confirmed at least 474 thus far — in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and suggests a way to keep casualties down. Russia has already been employing information warfare in Ukraine, from cyberattacks to propaganda through deepfakes.
Sajith Kumar refers to the rush to fill up tanks at petrol stations in India amid fears of a fuel price hike. Prices have been kept low in India for months despite rising internationally — especially with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — and they were expected to go up after the last phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh Monday, although this hasn’t happened yet.
Manjul comments on Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine as International Women’s Day went by. Ukrainian women got shout-outs from many quarters Tuesday.
R. Prasad comments on the Indian rupee falling to a record low against the US dollar due to soaring oil prices caused by the war in Ukraine, among other factors. The Russian ruble, also spelled rouble, also fell to historical lows amid sweeping Western sanctions.