Karnad is an Indian name that may refer to the following notable people: *

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 t ...

(1881–1937), Indian freedom fighter *

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: Th ...

, Indian national security expert *

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 ...

(1938–2019), Indian actor, film director and writer *

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 Librar ...

, 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

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