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Sep 27, 2021 · Karnad is the most famous as a playwright. His plays written in Kannad have been widely translated into English and all major Indian languages. Karnad’s plays are written neither in English, except few, in which he dreamed of earning international literary fame, nor in his mother tongue Konkani.
Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi films.
May 15, 2024 · Girish Karnad (born May 19, 1938, Matheran, Bombay Presidency [now in Maharashtra], India—died June 10, 2019, Bengaluru, Karnataka) was an Indian playwright, author, actor, and film director whose movies and plays, written largely in Kannada, explore the present by way of the past.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
He was an outstanding actor — as witness his work in the early films in Hindi of Shyam Benegal, and also in Pattabhirama Reddy’s Kannada classic, Samskara. He was an accomplished director, making...
Jul 2, 2021 · Karnad’s life journeyed with the life of our newly independent, secular, democratic nation, through all its trials and tribulations. He played a stellar part in shaping its public culture.
- Sudhanva Deshpande
Jun 11, 2019 · 11 Jun 2019, 11:14 am. Though Dr Girish Karnad did his higher studies in Oxford University and had command over many languages, he lived most of his life in Kannada and Karnataka. Protesting...
May 16, 2021 · The theater playwright, film director, actor, administrator, and activist, Girish Karnad pens his memoirs which is personal, dense, but filled with the warmth of a life lived with love. Prathyush Parasuraman. Updated on : 16 May 2021, 4:00 am.
