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Post by Guest Sun Jan 18, 2015 8:49 pm

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/Cartoonist-R-K-Laxman-critical-in-hospital/articleshow/45934566.cms

PUNE: Eminent cartoonist R K Laxman is in a critical condition after being admitted to Deenanath Mangeshkar hospital here for urinary tract infection and kidney failure on Saturday.

The 94-year-old Laxman, famous for his You Said It pocket cartoon in TOI featuring the much-loved 'common man', was put on ventilator support. "He had severe urinary tract infection following which he developed kidney failure, sepsis and then multi-organ failure," said the hospital.

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Post by MaxEntropy_Man Sun Jan 18, 2015 9:02 pm

didn't know he is still alive. i used to like him but lost respect for him when he refused to take bal thackeray on when he was demagoguing against bombay's tamilians because they were buddies.
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Post by Guest Sun Jan 18, 2015 9:07 pm

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:didn't know he is still alive. i used to like him but lost respect for him when he refused to take bal thackeray on when he was demagoguing against bombay's tamilians because they were buddies.

I remember reading one of his interviews in which he explained that, and it seemed convincing enough.

Was browsing wikipedia for him and his older bro and came across this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._K._Narayan


His grandmother gave him the nickname of Kunjappa, a name that stuck to him in family circles.[7] She taught him arithmetic, mythology, classical Indian music and Sanskrit.[8] According to his youngest brother R. K. Laxman, the family mostly conversed in English, and grammatical errors on the part of Narayan and his siblings were frowned upon.[9] While living with his grandmother, Narayan studied at a succession of schools in Madras, including the Lutheran Mission School in Purasawalkam,[10] C.R.C. High School, and the Christian College High School.[11] Narayan was an avid reader, and his early literary diet included Dickens, Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy.[12] When he was twelve years old, Narayan participated in a pro-independence march, for which he was reprimanded by his uncle; the family was apolitical and considered all governments wicked.[13]

Guess that had some conditioning on them too.

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Post by southindian Sun Jan 18, 2015 10:46 pm

Love R K LAXMAN.

Growing up, his cartoons were everyday joy for me.

My final 2 weeks of last December was spent watching all episodes of his brother's Malgudi Days.
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