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In today’s featured cartoon, Manjul highlights Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat’s recent remarks about Hindus and Muslims having common ancestors, and alludes to the murder of Mahatma Gandhi by Nathuram Godse in 1948 for saying similar things.
Satish Acharya pokes fun at the Narendra Modi government’s claims of record growth as the Indian economy continues to try and recover from the Covid shock.
Sajith Kumar shows a member of the Taliban exploding the myth that the group has changed. The Taliban were trying to project this image in the early days of their takeover of Afghanistan last month, but the caretaker government announced this week has no women, and numerous ‘most wanted’ ministers.
E.P. Unny alludes to the BJP-led central government’s handling of Afghanistan and the Taliban while also throwing light on the party’s elaborate preparations for the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has been made the party’s election in-charge in the state.