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In today’s featured cartoon, Satish Acharya illustrates how a master magician can dazzle the audience — which is expecting a rabbit — by pulling a wild card out of the hat. The rabbit, in this case, is billionaire Gautam Adani and the wild card, AAP’s Manish Sisodia.
Alluding to BJP leaders’ remarks suggesting that Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal “is next” in the backdrop of AAP leader Manish Sisodia’s arrest in connection with the alleged Delhi excise scam, Sajith Kumar suggests that members of the ruling party have the inside track.
Alok Nirantar delves into the Maharashtra Cinematic Universe where characters take inspiration from old Hindi movies to attack their political adversaries. The illustration is a commentary on Uddhav Thackeray comparing Union Home minister Amit Shah to “Mogambo” — late Amrish Puri’s character in the 1987 film Mr. India — and BJP leader Ashish Shelar calling Thackeray the jailer played by Asrani in the 1975 film Sholay.
Nala Ponnappa uses wordplay to offer his condolences to ‘Dilbert’, the comic strip that has been dropped by hundreds of newspapers, following creator Scott Adams’ racist diatribe.
Kirtish Bhatt, draws on French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr’s famous quote — “the more things change, the more they stay the same” — to comment on 10 listed Adani Group companies losing Rs 12.06 lakh crore in a month since the release of the Hindenburg Research report. In the illustration, a man tells his wife: “From a fiscal point of view, we are more stable. A month ago, we had Rs 500 and we still have only that much.”