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In today’s featured cartoon, Kirtish Bhatt takes a dig at a growing tribe of Indians who behave unruly during air travel. In the latest episode, an Indian man travelling from New York to Delhi allegedly urinated on a co-passenger on an American Airlines flight. The man was said to be in an inebriated state and picked up a fight with the co-passenger.
E. P. Unny takes a potshot at the Bihar government’s decision to amend its prison manual, which led to the release of Anand Mohan Singh. The former MP was serving life imprisonment for his involvement in 1994 murder case of the then Gopalganj DM.
Ahead of elections in Karnataka, R. Prasad depicts the BJP blaming the Congress for insulting Lingayats and Brahmins by removing its Karnataka CM Veerendra Patil in 1990 and dismissing E.M.S. Namboodiripad’s Left government in Kerala in 1959, respectively.
Satish Acharya showcases how the government has seemingly turned a blind eye to the ongoing protest against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over allegations of harassment levelled against him by wrestlers.