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Naseeruddin couldn't hold back tears at Cannes Manthan screening: I felt proud

Naseeruddin Shah remembered his Manthan co-stars Girish Karnad, Smita Patil and Amrish Puri. He called Smita “a dear friend of mine”.

(L) Naseeruddin Shah at Cannes Film Festival; actor in a still from Manthan.

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Published on May 20, 2024 09:15 AM IST

Edited by Ananya Das

Writings of Kambar & Karnad introduced in revised Kannada language text books

The TRC said it has revised the entire chapter of ‘Namma Hemmeya Rajya Karnataka’ in the sixth standard Kannada book with more details and pictures.

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Published on Mar 06, 2024 05:23 PM IST

PTI | | Posted by Pathi Venkata Thadhagath

Karnataka to reintroduce Girish Karnad, P Lankesh works in textbooks: Report

Karnataka to revise textbooks, reintroduce works by progressive writers like Girish Karnad and P Lankesh.

The Congress government had said in their manifesto that they will undo changes made to textbooks during the earlier BJP regime. (Representative Photo)

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Published on Mar 06, 2024 10:40 AM IST

ByYamini C S

Srinath Perur – “Language carries associations of both pride and vulnerability”

The translator and chair of the jury of the JCB Prize for Literature, 2023, on translating Girish Karnad’s memoirs

Srinath Perur (Apeejay Kolkata Literature Festival)

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Updated on Jun 26, 2023 06:09 PM IST

ByChintan Girish Modi

Actress Uttara Baokar passes away in Pune

Baokar, who was ailing for the last one year, died at a hospital on Tuesday and her last rites were performed on Wednesday morning

Baokar, who studied acting at the National School of Drama (NSD), acted in several plays with popular roles being “Padmavati” in “Mukyhamantri”, “Mena” in “Mena Gurjari”, “Desdemona” in “Shakespeare’s Othello”, and the mother in playwright Girish Karnad’s “Tughlaq”. (HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Apr 13, 2023 12:20 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Girish Karnad memoir in English to be out in May

Girish Karnad's memoir, which was to be translated from Kannada into English by the actor-playwright himself but could only finish a part of it before his death in 2019, will now be out in May after final touches by award-winning translator Srinath Perur.

Karnad, considered one of modern India's greatest cultural figures, first published his memoir in Kannada in 2011.(Wikimedia Commons)

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Published on Jan 31, 2021 06:21 PM IST

PTI | , New Delhi

Roundabout: ‘Our revels now are ended’

Artistes recall Girish Karnad’s play Tughlaq, which was staged in Delhi with the grand Purana Qila as a backdrop by Ebrahim Alkazi with his student Manohar Singh reliving the role in all its intensity

Manohar Singh as Tughlaq, a rare photograph by Ebrahim Alkazi.

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Updated on Aug 16, 2020 11:23 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByNirupama Dutt

PM Modi condoles death of theatre personality Ebrahim Alkazi

“His contributions to the world of art and culture are noteworthy ... Shri Ebrahim Alkazi will be remembered for his efforts to make theatre more popular and accessible across India,” the prime minister tweeted.

Ebrahim Alkazi died this afternoon following a heart attack. He was 94. Alkazi produced plays such as Girish Karnad’s “Tughlaq” and Dharamvir Bharati’s “Andha Yug”.(ANI)

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Published on Aug 04, 2020 06:43 PM IST

New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi

Naseeruddin Shah says if he wakes up one day unable to act, he will ‘probably commit suicide’

Actor Naseeruddin Shah has said that if he wakes up one day unable to act, he will ‘probably commit suicide’. “What is there in life without it?” he said.

Naseeruddin Shah has justified his role in the film Khuda Kay Liye.

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Updated on Apr 21, 2020 03:58 PM IST

Indo Asian News Service | ByHT Correspondent

‘It is the best time to be a performer,’ says Sonali Kulkarni

Actor Sonali Kulkarni talks about her role in the play, Mirror Crack’d, the current theatre scene, and more

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Updated on Feb 17, 2020 06:25 PM IST

Mumbai | BySanskrita Bharadwaj

Kushal Punjabi to Vidya Sinha: Film and television stars who left us in 2019 but will be remembered forever

From Kushal Punjabi, Vidya Sinha to Kader Khan and Girish Karnad, these stars may have left us but they will be remembered by their fans for years.

Kushal Punjabi, Vidya Sinha and Girish Karnad were some of the personalities that left us in 2019.

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Updated on Dec 30, 2019 05:22 PM IST

Press Trust of India, Mumbai | ByHT Correspondent

Train to Malgudi: Reliving your childhood days will soon be a reality

Boarding a train to Malgudi will soon become a reality for all the fans of the iconic television series Malgudi Days.

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Updated on Sep 12, 2019 12:04 PM IST

Shivamogga (Karnataka) [India] | ByAsian News International

Goof-ups on stage can never be funny: Shabana Azmi

Veteran actor Shabana Azmi talks about her upcoming play, Broken Images and her acting process Very few can match up to the level of actor Shabana Azmi when it comes to live performances. Known for her roles in movies such as Arth (1982), Masoom (1983), Fire (1996) and Neerja (2016), this National Award-winning actor has also done a plethora of plays such as Tumhari Amrita, Kaifi Aur Main and Safed Kundali.

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Updated on Aug 24, 2019 06:24 PM IST

Mumbai | ByGayathri Menon

Girish Karnad, the greatest Kannadiga of his age

His courage in standing up to fundamentalists has led some to celebrate Karnad as an exemplary ‘activist’ and ‘public intellectual’. This, to my mind, is a mischaracterisation. We should remember him rather as a great playwright and superb actor, and as a profoundly civilised human being

Girish Karnad seeks blessing from fromer PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee before receiving the 34th Jnanpith Awards, New Delhi, 1999. We should remember Karnad as a great playwright and superb actor, and as a profoundly civilised human being(HC Tiwari/HT)

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Updated on Jun 15, 2019 10:34 PM IST

ByRamachandra Guha

Remembering Girish Karnad: A voice of reason in an unreasonable time

A friend reveals the veteran actor’s deepest passions and challenges

Apart from being an actor and a radical playwright, Girish Karnad was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford(Hemant Mishra)

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Updated on Jun 16, 2019 01:33 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByNandita Puri

Farewell my friend: Shabana Azmi pays tributes to Girish Karnad

Shabana Azmi has penned a heartfelt tribute to late actor Girish Karnad after he died earlier this month.

Girish Karnad and Shabana Azmi in a still from Nishant.

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Updated on Jun 15, 2019 06:25 PM IST

Press Trust of India | ByHT Correspondent

Raghu Karnad remembers father Girish Karnad in a heartfelt tribute: ‘That was the man I loved’

Raghu Karnad wrote about his late father Girish Karnad that the picture that is growing rooted in his mind is of Girish in his spot on the sofa, his hand around a glass of whiskey, gently bubbling with bits of history, legend, song, folktale and philosophy.

In this file photo dated Oct 28, 2018, actor-writer Girish Karnad at the 7th edition of Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF), in Bengaluru.(PTI)

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Updated on Jun 13, 2019 06:31 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

Girish Karnad, the artiste as a brave intellectual

Karnad’s legacy encompasses his public role as a libertarian, an uncompromising public intellectual

Writer, playwright, actor and movie director Girish Raghunath Karnad died in Bengaluru on Monday June 10, 2019 after suffering from a long illness.

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Updated on Jun 13, 2019 11:30 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySmruti Koppikar

Girish Karnad cremated quietly and without fanfare, as family declines state honours as per his last wishes

Multi-hyphenate artiste Girish Karnad was cremated quitely on Monday, as per his last wishes. The Karnataka government had offered to conduct last rites with state honours.

FTII students and staff paying condolences to the late Actor Girish Karnad at FTII in Pune, India.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jun 11, 2019 11:35 AM IST

Indo Asian News Service | ByHT Correspondent

Girish Karnad: Literature’s doyen, friend, philosopher, and guide to all

Chandrashekhara Kambara, a Jnanpith Award winning playwright and novelist, described his relationship with Karnad, who passed away after a prolonged illness at 81, as an “intellectual jousting competition”.

Girish Karnad’s demise on Monday led to an outpouring of reminiscences from people across political and cultural fields offering their condolence, and remembering their association with the noted Kannada playwright.(HT Archives)

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Updated on Jun 11, 2019 11:15 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Bengaluru | ByVikram Gopal

Girish Karnad: An activist who fought for liberal values

Despite his declining health, Karnad led a protest march after Bengaluru-based journalist Gauri Lankesh was murdered in 2017.

As a public intellectual, Girish Karnad was known for his trenchant criticism of right-wing politics, and those opposed to rational ideas(HT File Photo)

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Published on Jun 10, 2019 11:56 PM IST

New Delhi | ByHT Correspondents

RIP Girish Karnad: The man who brought art, literature to the man on the street

Remembering Girish Karnad, the brilliant Rhodes Scholar who brought art and theatre to the man on the street.

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Updated on Jun 10, 2019 01:36 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByGautaman Bhaskaran

President Kovind, PM Modi condole demise veteran actor Girish Karnad

President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday condoled the demise of veteran playwright and actor Girish Karnad, saying he will be remembered for his work for years to come.

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Updated on Jun 10, 2019 02:48 PM IST

New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India

Actors, politicians condole Girish Karnad’s death: ‘A flame has been extinguished that lit up so many minds’

Expressing grief at the death of actor and playwright Girish Karnad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, MP Shashi Tharoor, actor Kamal Haasan and more shared messages on Twitter.

Girish Karnad passed away in Mumbai on Monday.

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Updated on Jun 10, 2019 12:53 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Girish Karnad dies at 81: As an era ends, revisiting his six-decade long career

The award-winning playwright and cinema personality Girish Karnad had a career that spanned over six decades. Karnad died in Bengaluru on Monday morning.

Girish Karnad in a still from Malgudi Days. The actor-playwright died in Bengaluru on Monday.

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Updated on Jun 10, 2019 11:51 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

Girish Karnad, veteran actor and playwright, dies at 81; President Kovind and PM Modi pay tributes

Jnanpith award-winning playwright, actor, director Girish Karnad died at his residence in Bengaluru early this morning, aged 81.

Girish Karnad has died at the age of 81.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jun 10, 2019 02:50 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

Author Amish Tripathi tipped as next director of Nehru Centre

Considered a flagship centre of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), the Nehru Centre, established in London in 1992, has previously been directed by actor-director-playwright Girish Karnad and diplomats such as Gopalkrishna Gandhi and Pawan Varma.

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Updated on Apr 14, 2019 09:30 AM IST

Hindustan Times, London | ByPrasun Sonwalkar

Guest article by Ratna Pathak Shah: What’s the point of art if you can’t ruffle feathers?

Stop viewing the theatre world through rose-tinted glasses, writes the second generation thespian

Ratna Pathak Shah, known for her crackling performances in films like Lipstick Under My Burkha and Kapoor & Sons, is a second-generation theatre actor(Shivangi Kulkarni)

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Updated on Apr 13, 2019 11:54 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByRatna Pathak Shah

Lok Sabha Elections 2019 | ‘Vote against hate politics’: Appeal by artistes including Girish Karnad, Arundhati Roy

In the appeal issued on Indian Cultural Forum, the 210 signatories said that the last few years saw “citizens being lynched or assaulted or discriminated against because of their community, caste, gender, or the region they come from”.

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Published on Apr 02, 2019 11:18 AM IST

New Delhi | ByIndo Asian News Service

“We Indians are real bandwagonwallahs,” says Anil Dharker

The founder and festival director Tata Literature Live! talks about India’s growing number of bibliophiles, bestsellers and lit fests, and what makes his fest the most lit one!

Anil Dharker started the Tata Literature Live nine years back and today it is one of India’s most prestigious litfests(Aalok Soni)

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Updated on Nov 04, 2018 01:33 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnanya Ghosh

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Naseeruddin Shah remembered his Manthan co-stars Girish Karnad, Smita Patil and Amrish Puri. He called Smita “a dear friend of mine”.

The TRC said it has revised the entire chapter of ‘Namma Hemmeya Rajya Karnataka’ in the sixth standard Kannada book with more details and pictures.

Karnataka to revise textbooks, reintroduce works by progressive writers like Girish Karnad and P Lankesh.

The translator and chair of the jury of the JCB Prize for Literature, 2023, on translating Girish Karnad’s memoirs

Baokar, who was ailing for the last one year, died at a hospital on Tuesday and her last rites were performed on Wednesday morning

Girish Karnad's memoir, which was to be translated from Kannada into English by the actor-playwright himself but could only finish a part of it before his death in 2019, will now be out in May after final touches by award-winning translator Srinath Perur.

Artistes recall Girish Karnad’s play Tughlaq, which was staged in Delhi with the grand Purana Qila as a backdrop by Ebrahim Alkazi with his student Manohar Singh reliving the role in all its intensity

“His contributions to the world of art and culture are noteworthy ... Shri Ebrahim Alkazi will be remembered for his efforts to make theatre more popular and accessible across India,” the prime minister tweeted.

Actor Naseeruddin Shah has said that if he wakes up one day unable to act, he will ‘probably commit suicide’. “What is there in life without it?” he said.

Actor Sonali Kulkarni talks about her role in the play, Mirror Crack’d, the current theatre scene, and more

From Kushal Punjabi, Vidya Sinha to Kader Khan and Girish Karnad, these stars may have left us but they will be remembered by their fans for years.

Boarding a train to Malgudi will soon become a reality for all the fans of the iconic television series Malgudi Days.

His courage in standing up to fundamentalists has led some to celebrate Karnad as an exemplary ‘activist’ and ‘public intellectual’. This, to my mind, is a mischaracterisation. We should remember him rather as a great playwright and superb actor, and as a profoundly civilised human being

A friend reveals the veteran actor’s deepest passions and challenges

Shabana Azmi has penned a heartfelt tribute to late actor Girish Karnad after he died earlier this month.

Raghu Karnad wrote about his late father Girish Karnad that the picture that is growing rooted in his mind is of Girish in his spot on the sofa, his hand around a glass of whiskey, gently bubbling with bits of history, legend, song, folktale and philosophy.

Karnad’s legacy encompasses his public role as a libertarian, an uncompromising public intellectual

Multi-hyphenate artiste Girish Karnad was cremated quitely on Monday, as per his last wishes. The Karnataka government had offered to conduct last rites with state honours.

Chandrashekhara Kambara, a Jnanpith Award winning playwright and novelist, described his relationship with Karnad, who passed away after a prolonged illness at 81, as an “intellectual jousting competition”.

Despite his declining health, Karnad led a protest march after Bengaluru-based journalist Gauri Lankesh was murdered in 2017.

Remembering Girish Karnad, the brilliant Rhodes Scholar who brought art and theatre to the man on the street.

President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday condoled the demise of veteran playwright and actor Girish Karnad, saying he will be remembered for his work for years to come.

Expressing grief at the death of actor and playwright Girish Karnad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, MP Shashi Tharoor, actor Kamal Haasan and more shared messages on Twitter.

The award-winning playwright and cinema personality Girish Karnad had a career that spanned over six decades. Karnad died in Bengaluru on Monday morning.

Jnanpith award-winning playwright, actor, director Girish Karnad died at his residence in Bengaluru early this morning, aged 81.

Considered a flagship centre of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), the Nehru Centre, established in London in 1992, has previously been directed by actor-director-playwright Girish Karnad and diplomats such as Gopalkrishna Gandhi and Pawan Varma.

Stop viewing the theatre world through rose-tinted glasses, writes the second generation thespian

In the appeal issued on Indian Cultural Forum, the 210 signatories said that the last few years saw “citizens being lynched or assaulted or discriminated against because of their community, caste, gender, or the region they come from”.

The founder and festival director Tata Literature Live! talks about India’s growing number of bibliophiles, bestsellers and lit fests, and what makes his fest the most lit one!

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