Girish Raghunath Karnad: Play

Girish Raghunath Karnad was Indian playwright. Explore interesting quotes on play.

Girish Raghunath Karnad: 16 quotes 3 likes

“I don't have an iota of interest in the historical Muhammad Tughlaq. I have no interest as to whether he was good or evil, whether he was pro or anti-Hindu. I wished to write an entertaining play, and in the endeavor, wanted to choose a fairly complex character.”

Girish Raghunath Karnad

Karnad in a reply to S.L. Bhyrappa quoted in Sandeep Balakrishna, Tipu Sultan - The Tyrant of Mysore, p.12

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“I have been lucky in having multipronged career. You know how I have been an actor, a publisher, a film maker. But in none of these fields have I felt quite as much at home as play writing.”

Girish Raghunath Karnad

Source: [Sahu, Nandini title=The Post-colonial Space: Writing the Self and the Nation, http://books.google.com/books?id=xs_tj0tDnnwC&pg=PA59, 2007, Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 978-81-269-0777-9, 117-18]

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“I've had a good life…. I have managed to do all I could wish for --even be a government servant. Now I feel whatever time I have left should be spent doing what I like best -- writing plays.”

Girish Raghunath Karnad

Renaissance Man, 24 November 2013, India Today http://www.india-today.com/itoday/12041999/arts.html,

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