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In today’s featured cartoon, we see a humorous portrayal of a recent interview between Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satyapal Malik. In the interview, Gandhi asked Malik about the Pulwama attack, to which Malik responded that Prime Minister Modi ‘asked him to keep quiet’.
In this cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu comments on the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) panel recommending replacing the word India with ‘Bharat’ in textbooks. The cartoon makes the point that the Indian government has bigger issues it should be focusing on, such as unemployment.
Sajith Kumar uses a line from Rabindranath Tagore’s famous poem ‘Let my Country Awake’ to refer to a recent incident where the legendary writer-poet’s name was missing from the UNESCO plaque for Santiniketan University, which was founded by Tagore himself.
In a reference to NCERT’s ‘Bharat’ recommendation, Satish Acharya also juxtaposes the suggestion with the plight of the common man in India who is suffering from rising prices, debt and hunger and being offered a ‘silver bullet’ by Modi.