The Young Chronicle: For 4th Graders January 31st, 2015 | Page 2

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RK Laxman, the Creator of the ‘Common
Man’ is No More.
Rambo and Pranks got really curious when they saw the
shocked expressions of their parents, when they heard the
news that RK Laxman was no more. Who was RK Laxman,
Rambo and Pranks wondered? Why were their parents so
upset with his death?
Papa then took out a book of RK Laxman’s cartoons, which
he had bought years earlier. The cartoon had a one of India’s
most profound cartoonists and the newspaper would be
nothing without his ‘Common Man’ cartoons. Rambo and
Pranks sifted through the pages, and came across a number
of cartoons on corruption, politics, government offices and
more.

The Common Man was an onlooker, in most of the cartoons.
Though he just stood and watched, he kept a watch on
everything happening around. He depicted the hopes,
aspirations, troubles and perhaps even foibles of the
average Indian, through a daily comic strip, "You Said It"
in The Times of India.
Here are some of the cartoons: