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Kannada Chair organizes a Tribute to Girish Karnad

Kannada Chair organizes a Tribute to Girish Karnad

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Kannada Language Chair, CIL/ SLL&CS

 

Organize

A TRIBUTE TO GIRISH KARNAD (1938-2019)

 

on Tuesday, September 3, 2019, 5.00 PM at

Convention Centre, Audi-I, JNU

 

Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, Major Indian Poet & intellectual And

Shri Santanu Bose, DEAN, Academic, NSD, New Delhi

 

Will talk on Girish Karnad

 

Followed by a paly

Raktha Kalyan

 

Director: Shri Shantanu Bose,

Translated into Hindi: Ramgopal Bajaj
Duration: 1 hr 25 mins

 

Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian actor, film Director, Kannada writer, and a Rhodes Scholar, who predominantly worked in theatre, and cinema.  He was a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India.  He was conferred Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan by the Government of India.  India’s history, mythology, folklore and contemporary issues formed the foundations for Karnad's fascinating exploration of what life would have been had any one of these tales or myths taken a different turn.


The play, RAKT KALYAN is a story spanning a few weeks that shows how a vibrant, prosperous society is plunged into anarchy and terror. The play was originally written in Kannada ( Tale danda) in 1989,  sheds light on the socio-religious, political and economic conditions of Karnataka during 12th century A.D.

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