Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman was born on the 24th of October 1921 in Mysore, British India, and passed away on 26th January, 2015.
Do you know that R. K. Laxman was rejected by the prestigious J. J. College of Arts in Mumbai, but was years later invited as the Chief Guest?
A cartoonist and illustrator, Laxman became a household name because of his cartoon creation of the everyday man known as ‘The Common Man’. His strip in the ‘Times of India’ newspaper known as ‘You Said It’, started in 1951 and was extremely popular with the masses.
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