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.
ThePrint’s Soham Sen illustrates the PDP-BJP break-up, suggesting that the BJP’s withdrawal had left ally PDP and its chief Mehbooba Mufti at a loss.
E.P. Unny, in The Indian Express, calls Amit Shah “the master of the unpredictable” after the BJP ended its alliance with the PDP. Mehbooba Mufti, the chief minister, was reportedly unaware of her ally’s plans to withdraw from the alliance. Only time will tell if this move has been an own goal for the BJP.
On Sify.com, Satish Acharya shows Narendra Modi jumping out of the Kashmir boat as it’s being sunk by a spurt in extremist activity. Announcing the split, BJP national secretary Ram Madhav had called the alliance “untenable”.
In Firstpost, Manjul suggests BJP chief Amit Shah had left CM Mehbooba Mufti stranded.
In BBC Hindi, Kirtish Bhatt offers a witty take on reports that rats had destroyed cash to the tune of Rs 12 lakh at an Assam ATM.
As frothy over-polluted lakes overflow and garbage on the roads increases in Bengaluru, cartoonist Nala Ponnappa suggests that the second generation has been ‘plasticked’ by the current one. For context, people sacked at IT firms abroad for jobs outsourced to India in the early days of BPOs were described as having been ‘Bangalored’.