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In today’s featured cartoon, Satish Acharya alludes to how the Congress and the BJP have locked horns over ‘expensive’ Burberry t-shirts‘ and ‘ burning’ khaki shorts at a time when, according to RBI estimates, the consumer is fending off a surge in food prices
Alok Nirantar draws on Maharashtra losing the Vedanta-Foxconn semiconductor plant deal to BJP-ruled Gujarat barely months after Sena MLAs led by Eknath Shinde brought down the MVA government and paved the way for the BJP’s return to power in Maharashtra.
R. Prasad comments on the schedule of the Congress party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra during which party leader Rahul Gandhi will spend 18 days in CPI(M)-ruled Kerala and only two days in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh.
Kirtish Bhatt gives his take on Hindi Diwas, which is celebrated on 14 September each year to mark the day in 1949 when the Constituent Assembly decided to make Hindi the official language of the Union government. In the illustration, a politician delivering a speech can be seen saying: “How will Hindi develop? Even security is allotted here in English! X, Y, Z.”
E.P. Unny comments on how India, which surpassed UK to become the sixth biggest economy in the world earlier this month, has slipped two ranks to 132 of 191 countries in the Nation’s Human Development Index.