Namakkal :

Condoling the demise of R K Laxman, residents in his ancestral town, Rasipuram in Namakkal district, paid floral tributes to him on Tuesday.

Activists of the Rasipuram People’s Forum paid  homage to Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Laxman who passed away in Pune on Monday. They showered flowers on a portrait of the cartoonist at the old bus stand in Rasipuram.

Laxman’s grandfather had lived in Rasipuram and the cartoonist’s father moved to Chennai before shifting to Mysore.

“Rasipuram is the ancestral town of R K Laxman and his brother R K Narayan. Both had made the town proud by their works,” said Nalvinai Viswaraj, secretary of Rasipuram People’s Forum.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Tamil Nadu / by Express News Service / January 28th, 2015