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In 2025, The Hindu cartoonists Mika Aziz, Soumyadip Sinha, Vasini Varadan and Irfan Khan offered illustrations reflecting connected cardinal events, ranging from a depiction of U.S. President Donald Trump’s ambitious bid for the Nobel Peace Prize to India’s subject responses pursuing the Pahalgam attack.
This cartoon appeared connected May 7, 2025 aft India's subject effect to a violent onslaught successful Pahalgam successful April. India briefed the United Nations Security Council connected Pakistan’s relation successful supporting violent groups specified arsenic the TRF (The Resistance Front) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), pursuing heightened tensions during Operation Sindoor.
This October 1, 2025 cartoon is simply a instrumentality connected U.S. President Donald Trump’s quest for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. Trump repeatedly expressed his tendency for the honour, often highlighting his self-proclaimed relation successful ending “wars” and conflicts astir the world, including those betwixt Israel and Iran, India and Pakistan, and Thailand and Cambodia.
The cartoon appeared connected August 16, 2025 aft a Delhi Police study called Bengali the “Bangladeshi language”. BJP IT helping caput Amit Malviya's arguments defending the Delhi Police stoked a caller controversy. Slamming Mr. Malviya, BJP's co-observer for West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee pointed retired that some the National Anthem and the National Song are written successful Bengali.
As the federation paid tribute to the Mahatma connected his commencement anniversary, this October 2, 2025 cartoon contrasted Gandhi’s ideology with the world of India successful 2025.
The October 23, 2025 cartoon comes aft West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee faced backlash implicit remarks connected women information aft the Durgapur rape case. Ms. Banerjee asked the women students residing successful hostels not to task retired astatine night. The Trinamool authorities has been facing important turmoil owed to concerns regarding women's information successful the State.
This cartoon appeared connected June 14, 2025, a time aft Israel conducted airstrikes targeting Iran’s atomic and subject sites with backing from U.S. President Donald Trump. Mr. Trump urged Iran to negociate a woody with the U.S. regarding its atomic programme pursuing the strikes.
This September 1, 2025 cartoon, looked astatine the India-China bilateral gathering to heighten the commercialized and concern ties and to question a "fair" solution to the borderline issue. The gathering occurred amid expanding U.S. tariffs impacting some countries’ economies.
This April 23, 2025 cartoon illustrates the Indian government's delayed authoritative connection connected the panic onslaught successful Pahalgam, which resulted successful 26 civilian deaths. In effect to the attack, India announced suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, closure of the Attari post, reduced and simplification of spot astatine High Commissions. Later, successful the aboriginal hours of May 7, 2025, India launched subject enactment nether Operation Sindoor against violent infrastructure successful Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
After inauguration of Vantara wildlife facility, this March 8, 2025 cartoon critiques the fragile authorities of the Indian economy, highlighting that portion powerfulness tin tame a lion, it cannot halt a carnivore marketplace and recession. The bull, a awesome of growth, is anemic and successful the ICU, reflecting the disconnect betwixt the elite spectacle and the harsh world for the marketplace and communal people.
This cartoon connected June 30, 2025, addresses the contention sparked by Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh wide caput Dattatreya Hosabale’s remark that called for the reappraisal of the inclusion of the words ‘secularism’ and ‘socialism’ successful the Preamble claiming they were not portion of the Constitution arsenic drafted by B.R. Ambedkar.
