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  1. Contents. Girish Karnad. Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) [ 1 ] was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, [ 2 ] playwright and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi films. His rise as a playwright in the 1960s marked the coming of age of modern Indian ...

  2. Aug 30, 2024 · Girish Karnad (born May 19, 1938, Matheran, Bombay Presidency [now in Maharashtra], India—died June 10, 2019, Bengaluru, Karnataka) was an Indian playwright, author, actor, and film director whose movies and plays, written largely in Kannada, explore the present by way of the past. After graduating from Karnataka University in 1958, Karnad ...

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  3. Sep 27, 2021 · Girish Raghunath Karnad is a playwright, poet, actor, director, critic, translator and cultural administrator all rolled into one. He has been rightly called the ...

  4. Girish Karnad was one of India's best known playwrights. '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 ...

  5. Girish Karnad, who died in his sleep in his Bengaluru home last week, was a colossus. Karnad had four careers, and he excelled in each. He was arguably the most influential playwright produced by ...

  6. Girish Karnad, an acclaimed Indian actor and playwright, has died after a long illness, his family said on Monday. He was 81. A Rhodes scholar, Mr Karnad debuted in films in 1970 and acted in ...

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  8. Girish Karnad in a still from Malgudi Days. The actor-playwright died in Bengaluru on Monday. Karnad was an award-winning playwright and a Rhodes Scholar, whose worrks spanned across mediums and ...