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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar — while referring to how India-Pakistan cricket rivalry is seen as among the most intense sport rivalries in the world — gives his take on how angry supporters of the Afghan cricket team hurled chairs at supporters of the Pakistani cricket team at UAE’s Sharjah cricket stadium following Afghanistan’s final-over loss to Pakistan in an Asia Cup Super-4 match Wednesday. Tempers also flared up during the match between Afghan bowler Fareed Ahmed and Pakistani batsman Asif Ali.
Kirtish Bhatt draws on how calls for boycott have impacted box office collections of many Hindi movies over the past few months in the backdrop of Bajrang Dal functionaries protesting actors Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt’s visit to the Mahakal temple in Ujjain as part of promotions for their upcoming movie, Brahmastra. In the illustration, a director’s cue for “lights, camera, action” is interrupted by a man who can be seen yelling “boycott”.
R. Prasad comments on the Ministry of Home Affairs’ (MHA) decision to grant Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) cover to the offices of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in New Delhi on the basis of inputs shared by intelligence agencies.
E.P. Unny alludes to how the Congress’s ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra, from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, could blunt criticism of party leaders for their trips abroad.
Sajith Kumar takes a dig at Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai for blaming the previous Congress government in the state for the floods that have ravaged parts of Bengaluru following incessant rainfall.