No exaggeration in the saying: people in Maharashtra wake up daily in the morning to see Laxman’s cartoons! India's greatest-ever cartoonist and 
the creator of ‘common man’ R K Laxman’s cartoon strip ‘You Said It’ in the Times of India, has attained cult status. Laxman’s simple but punching lines are deemed as a critical outlook as well as satiric images of Indian social and political life for more than half a century. Born in Mysore to a school head master father, Laxman was a child prodigy and used to draw on the floor, walls and doors of his house doodling caricatures of his teachers at school; praised by a teacher for his drawing of a peepal leaf, he began to think of himself as an artist in the making. After high school, Laxman was rejected by JJ School of Arts, Mumbai. The rest is history.
the creator of ‘common man’ R K Laxman’s cartoon strip ‘You Said It’ in the Times of India, has attained cult status. Laxman’s simple but punching lines are deemed as a critical outlook as well as satiric images of Indian social and political life for more than half a century. Born in Mysore to a school head master father, Laxman was a child prodigy and used to draw on the floor, walls and doors of his house doodling caricatures of his teachers at school; praised by a teacher for his drawing of a peepal leaf, he began to think of himself as an artist in the making. After high school, Laxman was rejected by JJ School of Arts, Mumbai. The rest is history. 
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