Sir, Every time I buy SOM, the first thing I do is to look at the cartoon by Satish Acharya under Star Punch. The quality of cartoons in SOM are world class! In fact, I am an ardent fan of cartoons in newspapers and magazines. In Karnataka, most newspapers publish good quality cartoons. When we talk about cartoons, it is my duty to remember the name of late R.K. Laxman ‘The King of Cartoons’. Now, I want to talk about the particular cartoon which appeared in SOM on 17th January 2018. It is a classic one. It is about our beloved Prime Minister’s Hugplomacy practice. It is such a wonderful cartoon in which I observed three intricate things:
- PM Modi is happily hugging the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. The cartoonist shows this by sketching Modi’s happy face!
- Israel’s PM Netanyahu is somewhat not so happy about it and it has been depicted by the right hand of him unwilling to hug! It is a wonderful depiction!
- While PM Modi is happy to hug foreign PMs and Presidents, the poor people of this country are looking at our PM to see if he looks at them also and may hug them. But the cartoonist is so intelligent that he has sketched the back of PM Modi towards the people. It is indirectly an answer to those people. Here, it need not be taken on face value, but can be seen from the angle of humour.
