As Modi s Stock Plummets, Cartoonists Have a Field Day
From the prime minister moving cylinders to allow cameras to catch him better, to him staring at mounds of pyres, cartoonists have been scathing.
Cartoons by several artists on PM Narendra Modi. Clockwise from top left are details of cartoons by Shaky Lines, Mir Suhail, Satish Acharya, Sanitary Panel, Bobby and Bob, and Nala Ponappa.
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 crisis is deep and has led to reports of untold human misery. As news of death and suffering occupies nearly all social interactions, those in charge of making us laugh have a tough task. Cartoonists, faced with the scale of the current tragedy, have been scathing in placing the blame on Prime Minister Narendra Modi â who held several election rallies as a crisis was brewing.