Iconic cartoonist R K Laxman, 93 year old ,passed away on the evening of January 26, at the Dinanath Mangeshkar hospital in Pune, where he was on life support for the past few days.
Modi expressed his condolence by tweeting as : “My condolences to the family & countless well-wishers of a legend whose demise leaves a major void in our lives. RIP RK Laxman”.
R K Laxman is the country’s best-known cartoonist, the creator of “Common Man”.He was born in 1921 in Mysore, Laxman had no formal training in cartooning but the work he put out over decades was genius. He began by drawing for local papers, and illustrating the stories of his famous elder brother, novelist R K Narayan, while still at college.