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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar gives his take on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s candid interview with actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan, while alluding to criticism of actor Akshay Kumar for asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the latter’s love for mangoes in an interview in the run-up to the 2019 general election.
Sandeep Adhwaryu uses his canvas to depict how 2023 is set to be a politically-charged year with nine states, including Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Telangana set to go the polls.
Sajith Kumar draws on new year celebrations, depicting a man approaching the I&B ministry to inquire whether a message he received (“Have a great 2023”) was fake news.
Nala Ponnappa, while referring to the transition between 2022 and 2023, illustrates the discourse around politicians flirting with a revisionist history of India.
Manjul, too, alludes to the passage from 2022 to 2023, while referring to the brawl that broke out between a group of passengers onboard a Bangkok-Kolkata flight last month.