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11/ Laxman was not the greatest comic. His jokes were not always funny. But The Common Man was a masterful invention.
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15/ Instead, he simply mirrored the hypocrisies and bullshit of the political classes by having his character bear witness to it.
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17/ He was not always the most politically astute. To those who do not understand his milieu, he can appear somewhat tame.
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18/ His cartoon commentary was not radical. It was even pedestrian at times. But the Common Man elevated every gag panel to sublime.
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19/ Laxman knew this, as his writings show. He did not claim political genius or astuteness. He knew his power lay in bearing witness
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20/ In a deep way, my own writing, while lacking the brevity of cartoons, is about bearing witness. I learned that from Laxman.
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