Girish Raghunath Karnad: Quotes about time

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

Girish Raghunath Karnad: 16 quotes 3 likes

“When people all around us are slaughtered in the name of a temple (and masjid) I hear echoes from those times long past.”

Girish Raghunath Karnad

Said while producing a picture called Tale danda on the subject of relationship of religion to politics.[Natesan Sharda Iyer, Musings on Indian Writing in English: Drama, http://books.google.com/books?id=e2_aFo5sAroC&pg=PA137, 1 January 2007, Sarup & Sons, 978-81-7625-801-2, 135]

People , Time , Past

“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,

Life , Feeling , Time

“I was excited by the story of Yayati. This exchange of ages between the father and the son, which seemed to be terribly powerful and terribly modern. At the same time I was reading a lot of Sartre and the Existentialist. This consistent harping on responsibility which the Existentialist indulge in suddenly seemed to link up with the story of Yayati.”

Girish Raghunath Karnad

This story of Yayati from the Mahabhrata generated interst in him to become a playwright and he explains this here.[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, 120]

Age , Time , Reading