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Ritu Gairola Khanduri is a historian and cultural anthropologist. She is an associate professor at the University of Texas-Arlington.Ritu is the author of Caricaturing culture in India: cartoons and history in the modern world. Cambridge University Press. 2014. The paperback edition will be released in February 2016.

After high school Maharaja's Govt. High School, Mysore, Laxman applied to the Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art hoping to concentrate on his lifelong interests of drawing and painting, but the dean of the school wrote to him that his drawings lacked "the kind of talent to qualify for enrolment in our institution as a student", and refused admission.[16] He finally graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Mysore. In the meantime he continued his freelance artistic activities and contributed cartoons to Swarajya and an animated film based on the mythological character Narada.[17]

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R.K Laxman's earliest work was for newspapers Rohan and magazines including Swarajya and Blitz. While still at the Maharaja College of Mysore, he began to illustrate his elder brother R. K. Narayan's stories in The Hindu, and he drew political cartoons for the local newspapers and for the Swatantra. Laxman also drew cartoons for the Kannada humour magazine, Koravanji which was founded in 1942 by M. Shivaram who had a clinic in the Majestic area of Bangalore. He started this monthly magazine, dedicating it to humorous and satirical articles and cartoons. Shivaram himself was an eminent humourist in Kannada. He encouraged Laxman.Laxman held a summer job at the Gemini Studios, Madras. His first full-time job was as a political cartoonist for The Free Press Journal in Mumbai, where Bal Thackeray was his cartoonist colleague. In 1951, Laxman joined The Times of India, Mumbai, beginning a career that spanned over fifty years.[18] His "Common Man" character, featured in his pocket cartoons, is portrayed as a witness to the making of democracy.[19] Anthropologist Ritu G. Khanduri notes, "R. K. Laxman structures his cartoon-news through a plot about corruption and a set of characters. This news is visualized and circulates through the recurring figures of the mantri (minister), the Common Man and the trope of modernity symbolized by the airplane (2012: 304)."[20]

Laxman also created a popular mascot for the Asian Paints Ltd group called "Gattu" in 1954.[21][22] He also wrote a few novels, the first one of which was titled The Hotel Riviera.[23] His cartoons have appeared in Hindi films such as Mr. & Mrs. '55 and a Tamil film Kamaraj. His creations also include the sketches drawn for the television adaptation of Malgudi Days[24] which was written by his elder brother R. K. Narayan, directed by Shankar Nag, and a Konkan coast based Hindi sitcom, Wagle Ki Duniya. Laxman also drew caricatures of David Low, T.S. Eliot, Dr. Rajkumar, Bertrand Russell, J.B. Priestly and Graham Greene.[23]

We looked for his daily cartoons before the headlines, before the sports page and before the comic strips. Growing up, his cartoons were water cooler conversation in offices, colleges and even schools. He made sure that the common man had at least the last laugh, if not a full stomach or a warm bed. Further, he inspired me to chronicle my teen angst as cartoons, with my dad as the main character. I once showed these to my father and he was not amused. They were too close to be funny. I never lost my interest in cartooning however, and I became art editor of my college magazine with cartoon illustrations to my credit. I still cartoon for private pleasure.

Last night, this magnificent little 'common man', our very own RK Laxman, went on his final journey to the land of eternal cartoons. He was 93 and ailing. He's left us his bagful of cartoons, a sharp sense of the ridiculous and a keen ability to cut through the pompous bullshit that is dished out in the name of patriotism, progress and popular demand.

There is a universality to his wit and a timelessness, too. Look at the cartoons today and while the faces may have changed, the issues haven't and the problems, sadly, are still the same. Even his 1958 cartoon about the Delhi Municipal elections has a current ring to it. Rajiv Gandhi and his feather in the cap cartoon can just as easily be any leader today! Indira Gandhi's 'clean sweep' cartoon can apply to Modi or even Kejriwal.

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Soon after reaching Bombay, Laxman picked a few assignments and his week-long visit unexpectedly became permanent.[3] He began making cartoons for the Free Press Journal. There cartoonist-politician, founder of Shiv Sena, Bal Thackeray, was among his colleagues.

Inder Malhotra, writing from Bombay, profiles R.K.Laxman, brilliant cartoonist of the "Times of India", whose insights into India's development struggle are looked forward to by millions every day. The central character of Laxman's cartoons is "The Common Manthe symbol of the average long-suffering Indian who tries to dismiss with a laugh the pomposity of politicians, the petty tyrannies of bureaucrats, and life's multiplying misfortunes".

Laxman's guess was correct but his hopes were belied. After he had submitted sample cartoons for a fortnight, Ahmed gave him some elder-brotherly advice: "You're still too young and raw to work in the capital. Find an opening in a provincial paper, work there for some years and only then come back to Delhi."

At The Times of India he got a job at once but not as a cartoonist. Indeed, the paper, then under British management, considered political cartoons as something pernicious. Laxman was asked therefore to join another 30 artists whose job it was to illustrate advertisements, posters and short stories.

It's only some foreign aid mission members, sir. I told them we wanted to be self-reliant and didn't want to depend on any country and sent them away!But Laxman insisted on drawing political cartoons, after finishing his allotted work, for personal edification and for eliciting the private opinion of the Editor, Ivor S. Jehu. These were so good, indeed so irresistible, that Jehu broke a 100-year tradition to start publishing Laxman's cartoons.

No wonder some of Laxman's most ardent admirers are the targets of his barbs. They pay good money to buy the originals of his cartoons. Mrs. Gandhi's Government itself has honoured Laxman with the award of Padma Bhushan.

Even so, there are occasions when powerful people have taken offence at his inoffensive but hard-hitting cartoons. Even Jawaharlal Nehru once got so enraged that he publicly rebuked him for being frivolous about so serious a subject as five-year plans.

Thanks for signing the papers! You are proceeding to the U.K. to pursue higher studies, did you say?Sometimes his admirers express their love for Laxman in a manner little short of bizarre. One man wanted him to design his wife's tomb. Another offered him generous remuneration to sketch his Guru meditating in the hills. A lowly railway clerk used to send him a small gift of money every month as a token of respect. The money orders stopped after Laxman made the "mistake" of sending the poor man copies of the four volumes of his selected cartoons that have appeared so far.

The National Gallery of Modern Art is host to a unique exhibition of cartoons numbering 96, by master cartoonist, the late Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Laxman (24 October 1921 to 26 January 2015) more popularly known as RK Laxman.

These cartoons are different from his usual cartoons, the ones most of us are familiar with, because they were created by Laxman at leisure when he was at his creative best. The works are a mixture of completed works and doodles. And they provide a fascinating insight to his creative prowess.

VG Narendra of the Indian Institute of Cartoonists spoke at length about his long association with the cartoonist which dated back to the 1970s. He spoke of a memorable day in Bangalore when RK Laxman, Mario Miranda and Abu Abraham, all of them great cartoonists, together graced an event. Speaking about the current exhibition, Narendra said that the NGMA is an apt place to display the cartoons thanks to its sprawling space.

On display are cartoons of a temple, birds, bicycles and planes. A very poignant nevertheless amusing one showing environmental destruction was my favourite. It has a group of people taking shelter from rain and floods on the stump of a felled tree with one umbrella over their heads. The story would have been different if the tree had not been felled. 9af72c28ce