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In today’s featured cartoon, Sajith Kumar draws a parallel between the Pegasus row and a large number of SOS calls and messages that surfaced on social media during the second Covid wave in the country.
R Prasad takes a swipe at the government in his drawing on the recent revelations made by the international Pegasus Project. Union Home Minister Amit Shah and new IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw denounced the allegations linking the government to the spyware attack, calling it an attempt to ‘malign’ India.
The Pegasus row featured in Sandeep Adhwaryu’s latest cartoon as well. The government has questioned the timing of the release of the findings of the Pegasus Project, which came on the eve of the start of the Parliament monsoon session.
Alok, in his take on the Pegasus controversy, recalled Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s infamous remark defending the GST revenue shortfall — that it was an ‘act of God’ in the form of the coronavirus pandemic.
E.P. Unny illustrates the skepticism for all things online that may be settling in after the Pegasus Project revelations. Perhaps offline is better than online?
Also read: What is Pegasus? The ‘ultimate spyware’ used for surveillance