Legendary Cartoonist R K Laxman passes away
Legendary cartoonist R K Laxman passed away at a
hospital in Pune on 26th January 2015 after a prolonged illness. He
was 94. Laxman, was admitted to the hospital on January 17 for
urinary infection. Laxman, brother of late novelist RK Narayan, is
survived by wife Kamala and son Srinivas, a former journalist. Laxman was
famous for his 'You Said It' pocket cartoon, featuring the most identifiable
‘common man'.
R K Laxman immortalised the passive, hapless
'common man' with an uncanny perception and sarcasm in a daily commentary on
his life that brought smiles to millions. Every morning for over five decades,
his fans waited for the Common Man who, with his signature checked jacket,
dhoti, Gandhi-glasses and twin tufts of gravity-defying hair, watched life and
politics in India. With his masterful strokes using the space of couple of
inches, he exposed the hypocrisy in politics, leaving many a politician
red-faced. The son of a school teacher --- Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Laxman- who
rose to become India's best known political cartoonist, was born in Mysore on
October 24, 1921.
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