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The Common Man is a cartoon character created by Indian author and cartoonist R. K. Laxman. For over a half of a century, the Common Man has represented the hopes, aspirations, troubles and perhaps even foibles of the average Indian, through a daily comic strip, "You Said It" in ''The Times of India''. The comic was started in 1951. When Laxman began to draw cartoons in ''The Times of India'', he attempted to represent different states and cultures 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 all the action in the comic. According to anthropologist Ritu Gairola Khanduri, "Clad in a dhoti and a plaid jacket, the puzzled Common Man is no dupe: his sharp observations miss no detail of the political circus." ==Other depictions== *The Common Man featured in a commemorative postage stamp released by the Indian Postal Service on the 150th anniversary of the ''Times of India'' in 1988. It became one of the most recognised feature on ''The Times of India'' the largest-circulation English language daily broadsheet newspaper in the world. *The Common Man was the mascot for the low budget airline Air Deccan. *Salman Rushdie, who grew up in Bombay on a daily fare of Laxman's pocket cartoons, mentions the Common Man in two of his books — his 1995 novel The Moor's Last Sigh and his 2012 autobiography, Joseph Anton.〔(Rushdie and the Common Man )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Common Man」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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