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200px The Common Man featured in a Commemorative stamp released by IndiaPost in 1988.
Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Laxman is an Indian cartoonist and humourist. He is widely regarded as India's greatest-ever cartoonist and is best known for his creation The Common Man.
R.K.Laxman was born in Mysore, now a part of the South Indian state of Karnataka. His father was a headmaster and he was the youngest of 8 children. His elder brother R.K.Narayan was one of India's best known English-language novelists. Laxman graduated from the University of Mysore.
Laxman's earliest work was for newspapers & magazines such as Swarajya and Blitz. His first full-time job was as a political cartoonist for the Free Press Journal. He later joined the The Times of IndiaThe Common Man featured on a commemorative stamp released by the Indian Postal Service on the 150th Anniversary of the Times of India 1988. Overview The Times of India is India's leading English language daily newspaper. It is the world's largest circulat, beginning a career that has spanned for over fifty years.
Laxman is best known for his daily one panel comic "pocket cartoon" series You Said It, which features The Common Man, and chronicles the state of Indian life. The strip began in 1951Events January events January 9 United Nations headquarters officially opens ( New York City). January 15 Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in We.
Among his other works, Laxman is known for his distinctive illustrations in several books, most notably for the MalgudiFictional locations Malgudi is the fictitious town created by R. Narayan in his novel Swami and Friends''. It forms the setting for most of Narayan's works. Narayan portrays Malgudi as a microcosm of India. While describing how he conceptualised Malgudi h stories written by his elder brother R.K.Narayan. He also created a popular mascot for the Asian Paints group called Gattu. Laxman has also penned a few novels. His cartoons have appeared in HindiHindi Hindi Spoken India Region South Asia Total speakers 480 million Ranking2 Genetic classification Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Middle Indo-Aryan Hindi Official status Official language India Regulated by- Language codes ISO 639-1hi ISO 639-2h filmFor other uses see film (disambiguation Film — also called movies the cinema the silver screen moving pictures motion pictures photoplays picture shows and flicks — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of the entertainments such as Mr. and Mrs. 55.
Laxman is a resident of both MumbaiThis article is about the city formerly known as Bombay. For other uses of this word, see Bombay (disambiguation Mumbai (renamed from Bombay in 1995) is the world's most populous conurbation, and is the sixth most populous agglomeration in the world. and Pune.
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