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Political cartoonists, faced with a clampdown on free speech, turn to social media to stay true to their craft.
Perhaps Narendra Modi never liked people making fun of him. But when he was the chief minister of Gujarat, he didn’t always make it as obvious.
Yogesh Solanki—pen name “Yom”—calls that period “the happy days”. As a political cartoonist with Sandesh, a leading Gujarati newspaper, he would lampoon the chief minister quite often. He once drew a cartoon showing Modi as the Roman emperor Nero, playing the harmonium as everything around him burns. Another time, he caricatured the Vibrant Gujarat investment summit, saying Modi was “#1 on claims but zero in delivery”.
“I faced no trouble for either work,” he …
The ruling party’s control over state institutions has come to look like ordinary governance. Reversing this capture is essential to restoring India’s constitutional democracy.
Influence cannot be manufactured through diaspora networks, carefully branded events or political donations. It requires honesty and credibility.
Fresh attacks in the country appear to have triggered another escalation in the Mideast conflict; Saudi Arabia wants tighter oversight on UAE transfers; and other important updates.
