The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.
In today’s featured cartoon, Satish Acharya comments on the passage on Savarkar in a revised Class 8 Kannada textbook that suggests the Hindu Mahasabha ideologue “used to sit on their [bulbul birds’] wings and fly out” of his prison cell. The illustration also refers to a story from ‘Bal Narendra’, a comic book on PM Modi’s early life, about how he once brought a baby crocodile home and had to put it back in a lake when his mother objected.
R. Prasad, too, alludes to the controversy over a passage on Savarkar in a revised Class 8 Kannada textbook, while also referring to the mercy petitions he wrote to the British between 1911 and 1920 for his release from the Cellular Jail in the Andaman Islands.
Sajith Kumar gives his take on how the BJP government in Karnataka is facing criticism for the “glorification” of Vinayak Savarkar through a passage in a revised Class 8 textbook.
Nala Ponnappa comments on the FIR against Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru — seer and chief of Murugha Mutt in Karnataka’s Chitradurga who has been accused of sexual harassment — while referring to how a man accused of raping and setting a girl ablaze in Jharkhand’s Dumka was seen smiling before the cameras following his arrest.
Kirtish Bhatt alludes to controlled demolition of Supertech Twin Towers in Noida in the backdrop of NASA’s Artemis 1 launch. In the illustration, a man identified as ‘builder mafia’ can be seen pointing at the moon and telling his aides: “Let’s go there. There’s a lot of hassle here now.”