R K Laxman's family recalls bond with cartoonist Thackeray

November 17, 2012 20:17

PTI reports: Even though they worked together at the Free Press Journal newspaper way back in 1947 as political cartoonists, the bond between Bal Thackeray and R K Laxman remained intact thorough decades.

The last gesture the Shiv Sena supremo made to his cartoonist friend was sending a bouquet to Laxman at his Pune home when the latter turned 91 on October 24, Usha, Laxman's daughter-in-law, told PTI.

"Their emotional attachment had become more intense in the last few years after RK suffered a stroke. Balasaheb visited him at Breach Candy hospital to boost his spirit, saying the mind should triumph over body," she recalled.

In a rare visit outside Mumbai earlier this year, Thackeray visited the ailing Laxman at his Pune home and spent almost an hour with him. He even recommended a homoeopath to treat his (Laxman's) ailment and presented a silver image of Saibaba", Usha said, adding the family deeply grieved the demise of someone who was close to them.

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