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Karnad
Karnad is an Indian name that may refer to the following notable people: *Karnad Sadashiva Rao (1881–1937), Indian freedom fighter *Bharat Karnad, Indian national security expert *Girish Karnad (1938–2019), Indian actor, film director and writer *Raghu Karnad, Indian journalist and writer *V.G. Karnad V.G. Karnad (1925 - 7 September 2020) was an Indian classical flautist who plays the bansuri. Early life He was born in 1925 in South Kannara, Karnataka, where bamboo grows abundantly. During his youth he played flute and harmonium. Career He ... (1925–2020), Indian classical flautist See also * Rag Boli Karnad, a village in Iran {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girish Karnad
Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in South Indian cinema and Bollywood. His rise as a playwright in the 1960s marked the coming of age of modern Indian playwriting in Kannada, just as Badal Sarkar did in Bengali, Vijay Tendulkar in Marathi, and Mohan Rakesh in Hindi. He was a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India. For four decades Karnad composed plays, often using history and mythology to tackle contemporary issues. He translated his plays into English and received acclaim. His plays have been translated into some Indian languages and directed by directors like Ebrahim Alkazi, B. V. Karanth, Alyque Padamsee, Prasanna, Arvind Gaur, Satyadev Dubey, Vijaya Mehta, Shyamanand Jalan, Amal Allanaa and Zafer Mohiuddin. He was active in the world of Indian cinema working as an actor, director and screenwriter, in Hind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raghu Karnad
Raghu Karnad is an Indian journalist and writer, and a recipient of the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-Fiction. He is a 2022-'23 fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. His book, ''Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War'', was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for a writer in English in 2016, and shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman Prize in the same year. His articles and essays have won international awards including the Lorenzo Natali Journalism Prize in 2008, the Press Institute of India National Award for Reporting on the Victims of Armed Conflict in 2008, and a prize from the inaugural Financial Times-Bodley Head Essay Competition in 2012. Karnad was previously the editor of ''Time Out'' Delhi. He is the son of late Girish Karnad. He has also contributed articles to ''The New Yorker'', ''The Atlantic'', ''Granta'' and ''The Guardian''. In 2015, he was part of the founding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karnad Sadashiva Rao
Karnad Sadashiva Rao was an Indian freedom fighter from what is now Karnataka, India. Rao was born to a wealthy south Indian family in 1881. He studied at Presidency College in Madras and also studied law in Mumbai. Rao became involved in the Indian independence movement. He founded Mahila Sabha to help widows and poor women. By 1919, he was fully involved in the Indian independence movement, being one of the first from what is now Karnataka to volunteer for Gandhi's Satyagraha movement. He was also one of the key members of the Congress Party and was responsible for expanding the party in what is now Karnataka. Rao spent all of his wealth in service of the independence movement and for helping the poor. He attended the Faizpur Congress Session in December 1936. A penniless Sadashiva Rao stayed in a leaky hut, and caught cold and fever. Despite this, Rao travelled to Mumbai without telling anyone of his condition. He died shortly afterwards on 9 January 1937. Rao died with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bharat Karnad
Bharat Karnad is an emeritus professor in National Security Studies at the Centre for Policy Research, Delhi and a national security expert. He is the author of ''India's Nuclear Policy'' (Praeger, 2008), ''Nuclear Weapons and Indian Security: The Realist Foundations of Strategy'' (Macmillan India, 2002, 2005) and author-editor of ''Future Imperilled: India's Security in the 1990s and Beyond'' (Viking-Penguin India, 1994). Early life and career He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara and received a Masters in political science from University of California, Los Angeles in 1975. Karnad served as a Member of the National Security Council (India), National Security Advisory Board, National Security Council (India), National Security Council, Government of India, and Member of the Nuclear Doctrine Drafting Group, and formerly Advisor, Defense Expenditure to the Finance Commission, India. He has been a visiting scholar at Prin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
