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R.K.Laxman

October 25, 2021
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In news- Recently, the Prime Minister of India has paid tributes to legendary cartoonist R K Laxman on his 100th birth anniversary.

A brief note on R K Laxman-

    • He was known for his cartoon creation ‘The Common Man’.
    • He was born on 24 October 1921 in Mysore, Karnataka.
    • He was also known as “Pied Piper of Delhi”.
    • He created the daily comic strip ‘You Said It’, which chronicled Indian life and politics through the eyes of the “common man,” a bulbous-nosed bespectacled observer dressed in a dhoti and a distinctive checked coat who served as a silent point-of-view character for readers.
    • While at Maharaja’s College in Mysore, he illustrated stories by his novelist brother, R.K. Narayan, in The Hindu newspaper. 
    • He subsequently turned to creating political cartoons for local newspapers
  • He worked at The Free Press Journal in Mumbai (Bombay) with Bal Thackeray, who was a cartoonist before founding the Shiv Sena political party. 
  • In 1951 Laxman moved to The Times of India, where he created You Said It.
  • He died in January 2015 in Pune at the age of 93.
  • In 2005, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian honour.

His other works-

  • He published numerous short stories, essays, and travel articles, some of which were collected in The Distorted Mirror (2003). 
  • He also wrote the novels The Hotel Riviera (1988) and The Messenger (1993) and an autobiography, The Tunnel of Time (1998).
  • He created a popular mascot for the Asian Paints Ltd group called “Gattu” in 1954.
  • His creations also include the sketches drawn for the television adaptation of Malgudi Days which was written by his elder brother R. K. Narayan, directed by Shankar Nag, and a Konkan coast based Hindi sitcom, Wagle Ki Duniya. 
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