Girish Karnad is a contemporary writer, playwright, actor and movie director. He is a recipient of the Padma Shri (1974), Padma Bhushan (1992) and the Jnanpith Award (1998). He writes both in Kannada ...

Despite the growing popularity of the term “Death of the Author”, sometimes it becomes virtually impossible to separate the artist from the art. Take, for instance, Yayati (1961), the first play by ...

'Girish Karnad has passed away at the age of 81', read a message on my phone from an old acquaintance on Monday morning. His death had been announced to the world like a palace guard who would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a director, he made his debut in 1972 with “Vamsa Vriksha,” by renowned Kannada novelist S.L. Bhyrappa. It was co-helmed with B ...

In Girish Karnad’s Bali: The Sacrifice (the English adaptation of his 1980 Kannada play Hittina Hunja), a king is torn between his love for his Jain queen, who refuses to harm life, and his duty to ...

Girish Karnad, a playwright, writer, actor, activist and one of India's most versatile theatre personalities, died in his home city of Bengaluru on Monday at the age of 81. The cause of death was ...

Eminent playwright, writer and actor Girish Karnad passed away at the age of 81 on June 10, 2019, at his Bengaluru residence due to multiple organ failure. He had a multifaceted career. As a writer of ...

One of the greatest thespian talents of the 20th century, Girish Karnad (1938–2019) was a product of the places, people, and institutions he came in contact with. Michel Foucault’s work on mapping ...

FILE- A Jan. 20, 2012 file photo of Indian actor and playwright Girish Karnad, attending the Jaipur Literature Festival in Jaipur, India. Karnad, a top Indian playwright, actor, director and a rights ...