Girish Raghunath Karnad Quotes

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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
The subject that interests most writers is, of course, themselves and it is easy subject to talk about. But you know it is always easier if you are a poet or a novelist because you are used to talking in your voice. You suspend your whole life talking as writer directly to the audience. The problem is being playwright is that everything that you write is for someone else to say.

Girish Raghunath Karnad
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
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

Girish Raghunath Karnad
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
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
I see a legacy of my generation... I am happy to belong to a generation that had a Dharmaveer Bharti, a Mohan Rakesh, a Vijay Tendulkar and I. Together we can claim that we did create a national theatre for modern India.

Girish Raghunath Karnad
A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized

Girish Raghunath Karnad