Girish Karnad

Actor and playwright Girish Karnad speaks at "The State of the State Conclave, Karnataka" in Bengaluru.

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Noted playwright and actor Girish Karnad and Marula Siddappa join a protest against the ban on beef eating in Bengaluru.

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Barbed words Ananthamurthy with Karnad

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Girish Karnad

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Shakespearean Playwright Of The Year Award: Girish Karnad, who accused Vidia Naipaul of being an old fogey, bigot, and even tone-deaf. And he still had enough ink left to take on a...

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Actor and playwriter Girish Karnad, left, in conversation with British playwriter David Hare during the Jaipur Literature Festival. Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie cance...

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Acknowledging An Original Honorary doctorates reflect as much light on the bestowed as on the bestower. The University of Southern California has decided to honour Girish Karna...

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Wednesday February 13, 2008 (From Left) Outlook Editor-in-Chief Vinod Mehta, writer Arundhati Roy, playwright and actor Girish Karnad and writer Mahasweta Devi during a press conf...

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Magazine

The Persistence Of The Brahmin

Lib-sec-dem Indians see no contradiction in opposing Bad Hindutva but priding on Good Hinduism

Dec 01, 2014

| S. Anand
Bibliofile

And now a war of words between Girish Karnad and filmmaker Girish Kasaravalli.

Nov 10, 2014

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The Many Masques Of The Playwright

Girish Karnad’s gratuitous blasphemies and fulminations are aimed at keeping him in the limelight

Oct 20, 2014

| Sandeep Balakrishna
‘Bangalore’s Chaos, Energy Fascinate Me’

On the English translation of his play, Benda Kaalu on Toast, the city he lives in, and more

Feb 03, 2014

| Neha Bhatt
The Never Forgetters

Naipaul’s passe, our national secularism project needs new legs

Nov 19, 2012

| Amitabha Bagchi
Bibliofile

Writers at the Jaipur litfest don’t say it aloud but they’re a bit peeved at this litfest becoming all about Rushdie vs the Weirdos

Feb 06, 2012

| Outlook
A Court Rises To His Honour

A loving tribute to Satyadev Dubey catches his complex, contradictory persona, as well as his undimmed brilliance

Jan 23, 2012

| Girish Karnad
Well-Thumbed & Well-Marked

In the year gone by, new releases jostled with books of recent vintage and old favourites on the reading lists of India’s prominent people.

Jan 10, 2011

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The Tumultuous Prophet

His own judges were the first to be baffled. A revolution was born on stage.

Jun 02, 2008

| Girish Karnad
Precisely, Shama

Precise, ironic, engaging. A stylist who could unravel a whole tangle of relationships with a telling phrase, the complex world of traditions and incoherent modernity through a tiny gesture.

Dec 18, 2006

| Girish Karnad

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Police Case Against Writer Girish Karnad For Holding 'Urban Naxal' Placard

Girish Karnad along with many other activists took part in an event organised to mark Gauri Lankesh's death anniversary.

Sep 08, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau
Gauri Lankesh Murder Probe: Actor Girish Karnad's Name On 'Hit-List' In Suspects' Diary

Karnad was among the most vocal critics of hardline Hindutva whose security was beefed up following the killing of Lankesh in September last year.

Jul 25, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau
Girish Karnad: A Glorious Build-Up On Vibrant Formative Years

While Karnataka is in the midst of a political thriller, a celebrated son of the state turns 80 on Saturday. A look at the early phase of multi-faceted cultural personality:

May 19, 2018

| Sreevalsan Thiyyadi
The Sport Of Berating Tagore

Yes, Girish Karnad is certainly entitled to his views about Rabindranath Tagore being a second-rate playwright. He is certainly not alone, nor this the first time he has said something like this...

Nov 13, 2012

| Ananya Mukherjee Reed
Those Magnificent Invading Musical Muslims

Naipaul's views on Islam as well as their critique by Karnad show that Indian Islam continues to be reduced to chauvinistic or progressive clichés

Nov 07, 2012

| Rohit Chopra
Why Has Naipaul Been Honoured?

The noted playwright takes Landmark and Literature Alive to task: 'Do they mean to valorise Naipaul's stand that Indian Muslims are raiders and marauders? Are they supporting his continued insistence on Muslim buildings in India being monuments to

Nov 02, 2012

| Girish Karnad
Abiding Shame

'If the Indian Government deports Taslima Nasrin, or holds her as an illegal alien, it will shame and diminish all of us... We demand that the spurious cases filed against M.F. Husain be dropped and that he be allowed to return to a normal life in In

Feb 11, 2008

| Arundhati Roy Ashis Nandy Girish Karnad Mahasweta Devi
This Is No Minor Episode

It threatens the very principles which are basic to our civilization. If we do not act to prevent a possible repetition of such an episode, only deluge will follow.

May 15, 2007

| Girish Karnad
'An Occupational Hazard'

The former Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi argues that if the current chairperson 'were to be removed from office on the basis of emotive criticism or mere difference of opinion on matters of p

Apr 27, 2005

| Girish Karnad