R.K. Laxman is India's best-known and best-loved cartoonist. For nearly forty years his immortal character, the Connon Man has continued to delight and charm readers.

The Best of Laxman

Comics & Graphic Novels

R.K., Laxman

Comic Strips

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Best of Laxman: The Common Man Meets the Mantri

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Penguin Books Australia

This book contains two novels by R. K. Laxman: The Hotel Riviera and The Messenger, and his autobiography, The Tunnel of Time. The Hotel Riviera This story revolves around the Hotel Riviera and the main characters are the author himself and the manager at Hotel Riviera. It is essentially the story of a middle-aged man who falls in love with a woman named Sabitha. He struggles to tell her about his feelings for her. The Messenger Shekar works in Bombay where his boss, Daya Sagar, runs a magazine. Daya s does other works are considered to be immoral and Shekar is dragged into all of it. Along the way, Shekar falls in love with his employer s daughter and they make a plan to elope. None of his plans work out and Shekar suffers many losses that leave him wiser and more mature than he used to be. The Tunnel of Time If you are a huge fan of R. K. Laxman and his works, then this book offers you the best way to get to know a little more about the cartoonist and writer. The book is basically a collection of memories and thoughts that are put across to us in the form of cartoon strips. It narrates his life in a very unusual way and through simple narration.

Collected writings

Penguin

Best of Laxman

Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd.

Distorted Mirror

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

India Penguin

From financial crises to the woes of householders, from political instability to rampant corruption, Laxman s Common Man cartoons capture the entire gamut of contemporary Indian experience. This special collection featuring the hundred most memorable Common Man cartoons of all time is a tribute to India s best-loved cartoonist and one of the most striking voices commenting on Indian socio-political life

The Very Best of the Common Man

From being tormented by gamblers convinced they see lucky numbers concealed in his cartoons to being mistaken for a Mexican and debarred from attending an invitation dinner on Park Avenue because he is carrying a raincoat to being charged with importing obscene literature into the country because a friend has sent him a copy of Playboy, R.K. Laxman s experiences could rival the most uncanny adventures of his most enduring creation, the Common Man. In The Tunnel of Time Laxman narrates the story of his life with the same acerbic wit, keen sense of humour and the satirist s ability to take a whimsical, cockeyed look at just about anything under the sun that we are so familiar with.

The Tunnel of Time

R.K. Laxman, cartoonist par excellence, is also one of the country's most entertaining writers. The Distorted Mirror brings together some of his best short stories, essays and travelogues. The collection begins with 'An Accident', a most unusual mystery story where the murder weapon is a newspaper. In other stories, we are introduced to Gopal, a schoolboy in an ordinary small town that is transformed one day when the Viceroy visits; Shantha, a little girl who makes an interesting discovery in the midst of a wedding; and Bhasker, a writer who is suddenly confronted by his past. Each story is marked by Laxman's ability to delineate a character or a moment with a few deft strokes and imbued with his trademark wit. No less fascinating are the travelogues-about the United States, Australia, the Andamans, Darjeeling, Mauritius and Kathmandu-which are brought to life by Laxman's vivid descriptions and his inimitable way of looking at the world around him. The collection is rounded off with a few rare and delightful anecdotes about Laxman's cartooning career, a subject on which he is usually reticent. Accompanied by Laxman's illustrations, the pieces in The Distorted Mirror will amuse and entertain every fan of R.K. Laxman's.

The Distorted Mirror

Viking India

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