From The Best Of Laxman: the common man at large; Penguin Books India, 2004.
R. K. Laxman (for Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman) is India's most celebrated cartoonist--- uncommon creator of the common man. While still at the Maharaja's College, Mysore, studying politics, economics and philosophy, he began to illustrate his elder brother R K Narayan's stories in The Hindu newspaper. After graduation Laxman went to Delhi to find a job as cartoonist. The Hindustan Times told him he was too young. So Laxman joined The Free Press Journal in Bombay, where he found himself seated next to another cartoonist who was furiously drawing a bird in a cage. His name was Bal Thackeray. One day the Journal's proprietor banned him from making fun of communists. So the twenty-three-year old Laxman left, caught a Victoria, and walked into the The Times of India office. From that day "I had a table and a room to myself, which I have used ever since."
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This time also let us promise them schools, shelter, employment, etc. Last elections we promised these and won! |
