A State funeral will be accorded to eminent cartoonist R.K. Laxman, who >died at the age of 94 after suffering multi-organ failure, officials said.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will attend the last rites of Laxman in Pune, an official from CMO told PTI .
Creator of ubiquitous mute spectator ‘Common Man’, Laxman was admitted to hospital in Pune on January 17 for urinary infection.
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He suffered multi-organ failure and was put on ventilator. He died on Monday.
>'R.K. Laxman, an unambiguous genius'
"There are would-be geniuses in the field of Indian journalism, and there are individuals aspiring to be geniuses, but I have long been clear that there is only one unambiguous genius among Indian journalists, and that is R.K. Laxman"