The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.
The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.
Democracy mourns a great orator
Alok Nirantar pays tribute to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, depicting that democracy is weeping at the death of this great orator. The BJP founder breathed his last at New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences Thursday.
Hindus & Muslims together in mourning
Illustrating for Firstpost, Manjul portrays Vajpayee’s demise as a loss for the entire nation. It depicts Hindus and Muslims, Congressmen and BJP workers united in mourning him.
Not just a politician
Satish Acharya in his cartoon portrays Vajpayee the poet, not the politician. Vajpayee had numerous poems to his credit, with ‘Kya khoya kya paaya’, ‘Geet naya gaata hoon’, ‘Sindhu mein jwaar utha hai’ some of his best-known works.
Modi’s space odyssey
Uniting the themes of ‘illegal migrants’ in Assam and PM Narendra Modi’s foreign tours, Hemant Morparia takes a dig at the PM’s announcement of a manned space mission to be launched by ISRO, called Gaganyaan. The PM, in his Independence Day speech Wednesday, had said in India’s 75th year of independence (2022), “an Indian son or daughter” will be on board the ‘Gaganyaan’, “carrying the national flag”.
A sinking rupee
Kirtish Bhatt, in his cartoon for BBC, depicts the fall of the rupee, which stood at its lowest value against the dollar — Rs 70 — Tuesday. Bhatt depicts a sinking rupee, calling out for help to the disaster management authorities.