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.
The incomplete dream
Suhail Naqshbandi sheds light on Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s ‘Kashmir doctrine’. The former prime minister, who passed away Thursday, had advocated ‘Insaniyat, Jamhuriyat, Kashmiriyat‘ (humanity, democracy and Kashmir’s legacy of Hindu-Muslim amity) to resolve the issues in the Valley.
Nirav Modi, Vijay Mallya should go to space
In BBC News Hindi, Kirtish Bhatt takes a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech. Modi said that by 2022, India will send a manned mission to space which will cost around Rs 10,000 crore. The cartoonist wonders that businessmen Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi, both fugitives, had flown to the UK at double the cost.
Unending Kerala floods
Mika Aziz shows the grave condition occurred due to floods in Kerala, where 2 lakh people have been left homeless. Till now, the floods in Kerala have claimed 324 lives.
Please do not ignore us
Sandeep Adhwaryu illustrates how the entire media was busy covering former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s last rites Friday even as the people in Kerala are suffering due to the worst floods in many decades.
Blame game
R. Prasad in The Economic Times takes a swipe on ecologists’ comment on Kerala floods. Environmentalists said that failure of policy decision has caused the floods in Kerala.
According to the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel, the monsoon-affected zones were identified as ecologically-sensitive zones (ESZs). The committee had drafted a report with recommendations. However, the government did not bother to take a step to implement them.