Girish Karnad citations

Girish Karnad était un acteur, réalisateur, metteur en scène, dramaturge, écrivain et boursier Rhodes indien. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. mai 1938 – 10. juin 2019
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Girish Karnad: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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]

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

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]

“What a person understands as his or her Purusharthas could very according to his or her background stageand station in life, sex, etc., as well as the nature of the crisis he or she is facing”

In this, Purushartha means "that which is sought by man; human purpose, aim, or end." Quoted in[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, 59–]

“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.”

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]

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