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<h1>The Uncommon Man to Common Man RK Laxman - Great Cartoonist To Get A memorial</h1>
"Laxman was not just a cartoonist - what he said through his cartoons will inspire future governments...Though he is no more, The Common Man he created will live forever," Fadnavis said Tuesday while paying homage to Laxman here.
Top political leaders, media personalities, industrialists, film personalities and others have condoled his death, besides an outpouring of grief, affection and love for him on various social networking sites.
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He was a cartoonist of nationwide fame, but R K Laxman left work strictly at office, never discussing his cartoons with the family, recalled his wife Kamala Laxman.
"Once he came home at 5pm, there was no mention of office. He never spoke about the cartoon he drew during the day . We only saw his cartoons in the next day's paper," she told TOI, adding, "The whole world knows about him. He was such a public figure. I seem to know less about him than others."
Describing her husband as a person "untouched by fame", she said that whenever he was asked to mention a cartoon that he was particularly proud of he always replied, "I have not done my best yet." She recalled that she knew him while growing up and he was present in Mysore on the day she was born."I had decided, this is the person for me," she said.
Kamala said that Laxman's humility and mischievous nature were the most striking features of his personality .
"We carried on like children. I used to call him `doddu' and he would call me `amma!' Later, I started calling him `baby'; it suited him well, he was just like a child. Our family has a knack of creating unusual pet names, you see," she said.
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"When I came to Pune, I got to know that dad had made two sketches of the common man holding the Indian flag on Mars," he said.
One of the earliest memories that Srinivas has of Laxman is his father dropping him off to school.
"On our way to school, he would describe to me everything he saw on the streets of Mumbai -people on the bus stop, schoolchildren, people waking up on the pavement, among other things. I still remember, we would chat with him at night while he sat with a drink. Those memories will remain etched in my mind forever," said Srinivas, who himself has made only one sketch in his life, when he was at Wolsingham School in Mumbai, and also won a prize for it.