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The Common Man
The Common Man is the creation of the famed cartoonist R.K. Laxman of India. For close to half a century the Common Man has represented the hopes, aspirations, troubles and perhaps even foibles, of the average Indian, through a daily cartoon strip in The Times of India, the largest-circulation English language daily broadsheet newspaper in the world.
When Laxman began to draw the cartoons in the Times of India, he attempted to put in representatives from the different states and cultures found in India. In the rush to meet deadlines, he began to draw fewer and fewer background characters, until finally he found only one remaining - the now-familiar Common Man.
The Common Man generally acts as a silent witness to the action in the comic.
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