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In today’s featured cartoon, Manjul mocks the propensity of the Narendra Modi government to label everything a festival, from paying taxes to living under Covid lockdown, and points to the rising wave of communal issues, including the latest call to keep meat shops shut during Navratri, to ask how one is supposed to celebrate actual festivals.
Sandeep Adhwaryu suggests that every time the fuel prices in India hit a new high, a new communal controversy crops up to cause a distraction, and the unthinking lap it up.
Sajith Kumar links the BJP’s celebration of its 42nd Foundation Day on 6 April with the heights that fuel prices are touching.
Kirtish Bhatt talks about Twitter’s idea of introducing an edit button, and suggests that the kind of hate and propaganda being spread on social media won’t reduce even if such a button is brought in.
Nala Ponnappa uses US President Joe Biden’s pun about the Russian ruble being ‘reduced to rubble’ due to sanctions imposed by many Western countries because of the country’s invasion of Ukraine.