The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.
In today’s featured cartoon, R. Prasad highlights the health crisis in dengue-hit Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh, and draws a comparison to the brutal second Covid wave, which saw the dead bodies floating in the Ganga and buried in the sand along its banks.
Kirtish Bhatt gives a tongue-in-cheek take on Javed Akhtar’s opinion piece in Saamana, the Shiv Sena mouthpiece, wherein he described Hindus as ‘the most tolerant majority‘ in the world. The cartoonist depicts supporters of Hindutva leaders who give fiery speeches wondering if they are not being taken seriously.
With the Madhya Pradesh government announcing the inclusion of epics Ramayana and Mahabharata in the engineering syllabus, Sajith Kumar humorously suggests that a belief in the mythical Pushpak Viman is what one needs to outpace private entities like Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin in the space race.
Satish Acharya refers to the Income Tax ‘survey’ raids conducted at the office of Bollywood actor Sonu Sood, who garnered significant goodwill for helping people with essentials such as food, masks and oxygen cylinders.
Nala Ponnappa depicts a fictional conversation betwen PM Narendra Modi and UP CM Yogi Adityanath on the latter’s controversial ‘Abba jaan‘ speech. Wednesday, CM Yogi tried a new tack, asking whether ‘Abba jaan‘ is an unparliamentary word at a public meeting.
Sandeep Adhwaryu pays tribute the retiring German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who gained many fans and critics while in power for the last 15 years.