From The Best Of Laxman: the common man at large; Penguin Books India, 2004.

This time also let us promise them schools, shelter, employment, etc. Last elections we promised these and won!

One day the Journal's proprietor banned him from making fun of communists. So the twenty-three-year old Laxman left, caught a Victoria, and walked into the The Times of India office. From that day "I had a table and a room to myself, which I have used ever since."