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	Girish Karnad Information
		Girish Karnad (born: May 19, 1938), is a contemporary Indian playwright in the Kannada language, in addition to being a movie actor and director.
		Educated at Lincoln and Magdalen colleges in Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, Karnad was Visiting Professor and Fulbright Scholar in Residence at the University of Chicago (1987-88).
		Karnad is most famous as a playwright; his plays, written in Kannada, have been widely translated into English and all major Indian languages.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Girish_Karnad (476 words)

	Encyclopedia: Girish Karnad
		Girish Karnad (born: May 19, 1938), is a contemporary Indian playwright in the Kannada language, in addition to being a movie actor and director.
		Girish Karnad was born in Matheran, near Bombay, in 1938.
		Girish Karnad (born: May 19, 1938), is a contemporary India n playwright in the Kannada language, in addition to being a movie actor and director.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Girish-Karnad (319 words)

	Department of the Study of Religions \| SOAS, University of London
		In his plays Karnad has striven to relate the past, be it myths from the epics, folk-tales or historical events, to the present.
		Karnad, by exploring aspects of the Lingayat tradition from more than eight centuries earlier, criticises contemporary religious fundamentalism and the violence committed in the name of religion.
		For Karnad, who was English educated and living in England at the time, it was a surprise when his first play evolved in Kannada (his mother-tongue was actually Konkani).
	www.soas.ac.uk /Religions/comeandmeet/2000/karnad.htm (1054 words)

	Girish Karnad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Educated at Lincoln and Magdalen colleges in Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, Karnad was Visiting Professor and Fulbright Scholar in Residence at the University of Chicago (1987-88).
		His plays were staged in India and abroad to wide acclaim, and Karnad himself began working in the field of theater.
		Karnad is most famous as a playwright; his plays, written in Kannada, have been widely translated into English and all major Indian languages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Girish_Karnad (500 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Weekend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In a remarkable adaptation of a technique used by many film-makers whereby a character’s conscience talks back at her through a mirror, Broken Images sees the protagonist’s electronic image on the television screen acquire a life of its own, probing, questioning and chastising her till she is forced to acknowledge unpalatable truths about herself.
		Karnad himself is fluent in almost five ‘Indian’ languages: Konkani, his mother tongue, Kannada and English, in which he writes, the Marathi he picked up in Mumbai, and the Hindi that he speaks fluently.
		The language debate forms only part of the play’s storyline as it also focuses on three main characters (of course, only one of them is seen on stage) — the author protagonist, her husband and her physically challenged sister who spent six years of her life with them.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050430/asp/weekend/story_4653181.asp (1011 words)

	The Hindu : Metro Plus Bangalore : Actor vs. actor
		Girish Karnad feels that his new play is particularly suited to Bangalore considering how IT has impacted people's lives.
		Karnad then shifts from larger concerns of technology interfacing with the individual to a perhaps more personal theme: the predicament of an author in a market-driven economy.
		Through his exploration of this double-edged sword, Karnad simultaneously brings to the fore some of the English-Kannada debates that surrounded the opening of Ranga Shankara; indeed this play was meant to be performed at the opening.
	www.hindu.com /mp/2005/03/19/stories/2005031903570100.htm (749 words)

	3to6 A Complete Movie Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Karnad was later to say that this was one of his easiest plays to write.
		Yayati, based on a story from the Mahabharata, set the trend for later Karnad plays subject-wise, that is. Karnad took from Indian history and mythology liberally to tackle contemporary themes in his plays that followed.
		Incidentally, Karnad's meteoric rise to fame as a cultural ambassador also saw the flowering of Kannada literature and cinema.U R Ananthamurthy's seminal novel Samskara was also made into a Kannada film with Karnad himself essaying the lead role.
	www.3to6.com /final_theatre/peroftheweek-girish.htm (546 words)

	Department of Drama & Dance: Hayavadana
		Girish Karnad was born in 1938 in Matheran, in the southwestern Indian state of Karnataka, India.
		Karnad is one of India's leading contemporary playwrights and has held important positions in many of India's national theatre and film institutes.
		Karnad's fusion of Indian and Western theatrical conventions reflects the story of the transposed heads in the sense that one body of dramatic structure is joined with another; but dramaturgical conventions go together much more seamlessly than the dismembered heads, as we will see in Karnad's tale.
	ase.tufts.edu /drama-dance/balch/Hayav (2049 words)

	V I R T U A L B A N G A L O R E . C O M - Bangalore: People - Girish Karnad
		A very emotional and touched Karnad said he could not have anticipated a better felicitation and stated that for a playwright, being staged and appreciated, was the greatest gift of all.
		Karnad's themes, no matter in what garment they are couched or embellished, always contain an unmistakable thread - a comment on contemporary ideas allegorized in whatever form he thinks best.
		Incidentally, Karnad was on location shooting his film Kanooru Heggadathi, based on a book by the same name by Kuvempu, the first Kannada Jnanpith awardee, when Karnad's award was announced.
	www.virtualbangalore.com /Ppl/PplKarnad.php (817 words)

	Seriously Sandeep » Denigrating Indian Culture: the Girish Karnad Way Part 1
		Karnad is a fine actor, a decent director, and a mediocre playwright; necessarily in that order.
		Karnad however, has cast his protagonists: Tughlaq, Aravasu (more on him later), and Yayati as persons living an existential life, which is grossly opposed to their characterisation in the Originals.
		Karnad appears to me to be an overambitious man who does not know where to draw the line between adapting to an environment to survive and fostering one where sycophancy rules.
	www.sandeepweb.com /2005/05/10/denigrating-indian-culture-the-girish-karnad-way-part-1 (1342 words)

	The Hindu : Karnataka / Mangalore News : Girish Karnad favours regional drama schools
		Why are there no regional drama schools, asked theatre personality Girish Karnad while speaking to presspersons at the sidelines of the national conference on the Forum of Contemporary Theory under the aegis of English Department of the Mangalore University.
		Karnad said: "In regional cities, people should evolve theatre over a period of time so that it is immune from outside influences." Dr. Karnad agreed that the National School of Drama has the resources, but theatre is characterised by diversity in culture, presentation, and performance.
		Replying to a question on why some intellectuals appear to have a soft corner for the naxalite movement, Dr. Karnad said it is in the spirit of inquiry that intellectuals dwell on such movements.
	www.hindu.com /2005/12/16/stories/2005121618960300.htm (314 words)

	Profile: Girish Karnad: Renaissance Man
		Call it coincidence or destiny but Girish Karnad was in a remote village in Karnataka shooting a film based on a novel by K.V. Puttanna, the first Kannada writer to be awarded the prestigious Jnanpith award in 1967, when the newspapers announced that this year's Jnanpith had gone to Karnad.
		His detractors, however, insist that stripped of his other roles, Karnad is reduced to a bunch of plays that dwell on arcane myths and parochial ethnicity.
		Karnad's first film was Samskara, based on Ananthamurthy's novel by the same name.
	www.india-today.com /itoday/12041999/arts.html (978 words)

	Speaking a new 'mother-tongue' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The play, Karnad’s first directorial attempt after 35 years, is shared with KM Chaitanya, ‘youthful and knowledgeable on electronic technicalities’, as Karnad put it.
		And that is the underlying theme of this play; envy as part of the human condition that manifests itself in today’s globalised world, and the ‘politics of writing’ as Karnad refers to the literary scene today.
		Karnad adds that writing in English brings international recognition while translation into other regional languages reaches a far broader Indian audience.
	www.humanscape.org /Humanscape/2005/May/theatre.php (583 words)

	Drishti April 1996
		Karnad's lead roles in Manthan (1976) and Swami (1978) are among his best in Hindi art cinema.
		As a playwright, Karnad played a key role in the collective endeavour after 1960 to devise a distinctly Indian, powerfully synthetic theatre that could circumvent the conventions of western realism, expressionism, and theatricalism.
		Among Karnad's plays, Tughlaq and Hayavadana have been widely performed in Europe and the United States, and the 1993 production of Naga-Mandala at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis was the first professional production of a contemporary Indian play by a major regional American theatre.
	www.ou.edu /student/spicmacy/dris_apr96/dharwad1.htm (2139 words)

	Tughlaq - Girish Karnad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This is what, in the course of the play Tughlaq by Girish Karnad, well-known actor, Jnanpeeth Awardee and one of the most important playwrights living today; an important character - Sheikh Imam-ud-Din has to say about Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq, now remembered as the most foolish king ever to have ascended to the throne of Delhi.
		Tughlaq, Karnad's second Kannada play and now widely recognized as a classic, first appeared in print in 1964; and was an immediate success on the stage.
		Be it the witty dialog between the Sultan and Imam-ud-Din; or a comical conversation between Azzam and Aziz, Karnad's genius prevails.
	www.freshlimesoda.com /reviews/tughlaq_girish_karnad_samartha.htm (391 words)

	Girish Karnad News
		News about Girish Karnad continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Girish Karnad, famous for his plays rooted in Indian tradition, like Yayati and Tughlaq, breaks new ground with his A Heap of Broken Images, that explores emerging facets of urban Indian society, with its...
		Nagesh Kukunoor's 'Iqbal' is the classic wish-fulfillment fantasy in which the underdog wins despite all odds - too many in fact.
	www.topix.net /who/girish-karnad (95 words)

	rediff.com: Girish Karnad salutes theatre legend B V Karanth's memory
		[Karnad was one of the persons who stood by and helped Karanth during his difficult days].
		The government of Karnataka was loyal to one of its most famous sons and gave him a job that enabled him to bring up the Ranagana repertory theatre in Mysore.
		Girish Karnad, director of the Nehru Centre, London, spoke to Shyam Bhatia.
	www.rediff.com /news/2002/sep/04spec.htm (660 words)

	girish karnad - News - Bollywood - Movie Actor and Film Star
		It may be recalled, few months ago when litterateur and play-wright Girish Karnad raised a point on Bhyrappa's work on Tipu Sultan, the latter defended with...
		However, for Girish Karnad, playwright, who hails from Karnad, a suburb of Mangalore, it is a not an issue.
		Girish Karnad, writer, playwright and actor thinks that having a woman President âis a marvellous idea in principleâ but prefers not to say anything further...
	bollywood-buzz.com /actor/girish-karnad (302 words)

	London's Nehru Centre bids farewell to Karnad
		Author, playwright, actor, producer and director Girish Karnad was given touching and memorable farewell in London on Monday night as he laid down office as director of the Nehru Centre after a 'fruitful' stint of over three years.
		In his reply, Karnad said he was overwhelmed by the love and affection.
		Hi Girish, Thats a wonderful experience one could have.I have a humble suggestion.Can we have a book from you on the changing scenarios in indian...
	www.rediff.com /us/2003/jun/03uk.htm (458 words)

	Girish Karnad - Dishant.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Cast: Girish Karnad, Kittu Gidwani, Naseeruddin Shah, Shreyas Talpade, Shweta Prasad
		Cast: Girish Karnad, Hema Malini, Kamal Hassan, Rani Mukherjee, Shahrukh Khan
		Cast: Girish Karnad, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Ranjeet, Shilpa Shetty, Sunil Shetty, Suresh Oberoi
	www.dishant.com /cast/Girish_Karnad.html (45 words)

	Girish Karnad (1938 - ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Born on May 19, 1938, in Mathern, Maharastra, Girish Karnad has become one of India's brightest shining stars, earning international praise as a playwright, poet, actor, director, critic, and translator.
		By the time Tughlaq, a compelling allegory on the Nehruvian era, was performed by the National School of Drama, Karnad had established himself as one of the most promising playwrights in the country.
		At the age of sixty, however, Karnad is vowing to give up cinema for the stage.
	www.imagi-nation.com /moonstruck/clsc79.html (341 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Education Tribune
		In this way Karnad explores the meaning of creativity by presenting a complex and provocatively ambiguous world where fictional characters and real characters intermingle and the lines between the visible and the invisible surge into each other spontaneously.
		Sucked into the vortex of globalisation with its obscene advances and media hoopla she tries to explain her position, by arguing that even though she was writing in the English language, her publishers insist that her ‘book is selling because it has the smell of the soil.’
		Self-admittedly autobiographical, Karnad in various interviews has mentioned that the seed of the idea for this play was planted in his mind by a conversation that he had with the writer Shashi Deshpande, about the emotional encounter that she had at a writers’ conference in Neemrana between the regional writers versus the English writers.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050508/society.htm (2338 words)

	Waheeda Rehman & Girish Karnad in Brides Wanted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Yesteryear artists Waheeda Rehman and Girish Karnad will be seen together in a film titled “Brides Wanted”.
		The film directed by Girish Acharya is made in both Hindi and English languages.
		Sawhney plays an NRI in the film who is looking for a bride and his grandparents played by Waheeda and Karnad helps him out in the process.
	www.indiafm.com /scoop/04/may/2405waheeda/index.shtml (112 words)

	Untitled Document
		Playwright, actor, director, and theatre scholar Girish Karnad conceived this film as a popularly-accessible tribute to the glories of Sanskrit drama, turning one of the most beloved of classical plays, the ca.
		As in modern Western adaptations of Greek classics, stage business is abundantly used to flesh out the script, and Karnad adds the clever touch of placing Vatsyayana, brahman author of the famous treatise on erotics, Kamasutra, in the midst of the brothel where much of the action unfolds.
		The mega-happy ending of the Sanskrit drama (of the sort generally favored in Hindi cinema as well) is subverted by a poignant final twist, conceived by Karnad to more accurately reflect the constraints on the ancient courtesan's social role.
	www.uiowa.edu /~incinema/utsav.html (636 words)

	Comments on: Girish Karnad’s Heap of Broken Images
		Sir i have translated a three act play "Revenge of Shakuni" written by late Gonesf Gogoi, an eminent playwriter of Assam in the 40's wherein he captured the essnce of the Mahabharata in a tiny volume of 40 pages only, for a wider audience.
		I am writting this letter to explore a possibility of staging the same through renown theatre groups and request you to have a glance on the creation.
		Comment on Girish Karnad’s Heap of Broken Images by: F e r r a r i
	www.anitabora.com /blog/2005/03/24/girish-karnads-heap-of-broken-images/feed (775 words)

	Girish Karnad explores Tughlaq's character- The Economic Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Girish Karnad explores Tughlaq's character- The Economic Times
		Girish Karnad’s play Tughlaq explores the character of one of the most fascinating kings to occupy the throne in Delhi, namely, Mohammed-bin-Tughlaq.
		He ruled for 26 years, a period of unparalleled cruelty and agonising existence for his subjects.
	economictimes.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-910843,prtpage-1.cms (953 words)

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