Updated on May 28th, 2019
R.K. Laxman, the doyen of India’s political cartoon and the man behind ” the common man” breathed his last on January 26, 2015. The man who for over 50 years captured the conscience of India through his sketches and cartoons, with a tinge of wit, humour and sarcasm. Laxman’s cartoons were funny but never offensive.
Let’s have a retrospective of Mr. Laxman’s cartoons through the eyes of his “Common Man”(dressed in a dhoti with a small tuft of hair) sported a quintessentially Indian look, a bewildered look, as he gazed through his rounded spectacles at the trappings of power and the vagaries of Indian politics…
1. The “common man” enjoying “You Said It”
2. The “common man” before and after an election
3. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
4. The Might of 10 Janpath
5. On Mr. Rajiv Gandhi’s Initiative To Move Into 21st Century
6. On Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord
7. On Bangla Desh Crisis
8. Common Man’s Plight
9. Smt. Gandhi’s Victory in Assembly Elections
10. Smt. Gandhi’s High Handedness At The Time of Shah Commission
11. Plight of Common Man At The Time of Emergency
12. Travails of Analyzing Budget
13. All Powerful Smt. Gandhi With Her Cabinet
14. Back And Forth
15. Lessons in Lok Sabha
16. Criminals Entering Corridors of Power
17. Former President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
18. Predicament of Pavement Dwellers
19. Gujarat Relief Fund
20. On Shiv Sena-BJP Alliance
21. On Jay Prakash Narayan’s Save Democracy Movement
22. On Anti-Hindi Agitation
23. Massive Support For Gandhi After “Garibi Hatao” Slogan
24. Common Man’s Crusade To Corruption And Scam
25. Hindu Code Bill
26. People Voting For Congress
27. Tamil People Plight In Sri Lanka
28. On The Rising Price
29. Postal Department Tribute To The Common’s Man
30. On Toppling of Deve Gowda’s Government
31. On The US-Iraq War Build-Up
32. Smt. Gandhi’s Sweeping Victory in 1980
33. On J.P’s Movement
34. On The Budget Making, Isolating The Poor
35. On 50 Years of India’s Independence
36. On Congress’s Socialism and Pro-Poor Plank
37. Former Chief Minister of Bihar, Lalu Prasad Yadav
38. On Smt. Gandhi’s Victory At Chikmaglur
39. R.K Laxman Drawing His Common Man
40. On Common Man’s Dilemma On Moon Project
41. On IMF’s High-Handedness In Dealing With Developing Nations
42. On Anti-poor Policies
43. On Rising Price of Petrol
44. Rajiv Gandhi And V.P Singh Handling Of Poverty Line Issue
45. On Emergency
46. President Pranab Mukherjee
47. The vagaries of day to day life
48. Sarcasm of collateral damage
49. Flip-flop of BJP Sena alliance
50. On toppling of Janata government
51. Vacuous claim of marching to the 21st century
52. Insensitivity of political class on common men’s plight
And, now, some of the tributes on the demise of the “Common Man”
R.I. P R.K Laxman. “You Said It” BEST.
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