Google has posted a doodle on its India homepage in honour of the legendary cartoonist RK Laxman. Laxman had passed away on January 26 this year in Pune. He was 93.
In the doodle, Laxman's iconic creation 'The Common Man' is shown posing for his creator.
The RK Laxman Google doodle has been created by Google doodler Olivia Huynh in collaboration with Google employees from India. Huynh made sure to capture "his wild shock of hair and distinctive grin."
Much like many other Google doodles, there were other early sketches of it that didn't make the final cut.
One of the draft doodles shows a diminutive Common Man, reading a newspaper, amidst a crowd of giant people with pieces of paper littered all around.
Another of Huynh's early sketches shows Laxman working on his desk, while the Common Man peeps from behind the Google logo looking at his own sketch.
The third draft shows the Common Man looking at RK Laxman's photograph in a giant newspaper with Google in its masthead.
Laxman's bald and bespectacled Common Man in a check coat was a silent spectator in daily single-panel cartoons that regaled millions of readers of The Times of India, helping Laxman to comment on a variety of issues plaguing post-independence India, from corrupt politicians to street potholes.
Born on October 24, 1921 in Mysore, Laxman was the youngest of six brothers who included RK Narayan, one of India's most renowned writers.
Laxman showed an early talent for sketching and illustrated many of Narayan's stories before joining the Times of India in the 1950s. Narayan died in 2001.
IBNLive's Soumyadip Choudhury had posted this unofficial Google doodle when the news of Laxman's death came in.
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