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In today’s featured cartoon, Kirtish Bhatt pokes fun at the Indian TV channels and their prime-time debates in the wake of Indian and Chinese troops clashing in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang sector. Bhatt calls out TV news’ penchant for picking topics that revolve around communal issues.
The TV anchor tells a panelist — whose t-shirt reads ‘Hindu-Muslim conflict agenda’ — to “rest for a few days”.
Neelabh also alludes to the conflict between Indian and Chinese forces, which, he points out, is happening even while China is witnessing unrest from within over its zero-Covid policies.
Irshad Kaptan | Twitter/@irshadkaptan1Irshad Kaptan takes a jibe at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s statement Tuesday designating Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav as his political heir for the 2025 Assembly elections.
The cartoon depicts Tejashwi saying — “Everything else is fine… just let your conscience continue to sleep”.
E.P. Unny takes a dig at the panel set up by the Maharashtra government Tuesday to track interfaith and inter-caste marriages, when they are yet to address the worsening air quality in Mumbai.
In his cartoon, Satish Acharya references the statement made by Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra in the winter session of the parliament Tuesday — “the question is not who started the fire, the question is who handed the matchbox to a crazy person” — suggesting it might be a question voters must ask themselves.