A humble giant bid adieu yesterday. A legend in the theatre circle, a playwright par excellence, sensitive novelist and an unassumingly brilliant actor. Girish Karnad had donned many a hats in his life time and excelled in all of them. He was instrumental in bringing Indian mythology, history and folklore into the limelight. He was a keen observer of the society who never shied away from his social moral duties.
Girish Karnad was born in 1938 in Maharashtra, brought up in Karnataka. He started writing plays at a young age. These plays were written in Kannada, as he could bring out the r ...
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