Yazdi Naoshriwan Karanjia (born 3 March 1937,

Valsad Valsad (Pronunciation: �alsɑɖ (Gujarati: વલસાડ), historically known as Bulsar, is a city and a municipality in Valsad district of the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the district headquarters of Valsad district. The city of Vals ...

) is a Gujarati theatre person from India. He is based in Surat and widely noted as one of the doyens of

Parsi theatre Parsi theatre is a generic term for an influential theatre tradition, staged by Parsis, and theatre companies largely-owned by the Parsi business community, which flourished between 1850 and 1930s. Plays were primarily in the Hindustani language ( ...

. For more than 60 years, his troupe has performed comedy plays. With Chandravadan Mehta, he has created ''Tapitate Tapidas'', a comedy radio series on Akashvani, which ran for more than 400 episodes. Later it was also published as a book. Some of his popular comedy plays include ''Bicharo Barjor'', ''Dinshajina Dabba Gul'' and ''Kutarani Punchhadi Vanki''. He rans Cambay Institute of Commerce, a coaching institute. He was awarded with the

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, the fourth highest civilian award of

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, for his services in the field of the arts. He married Vira in 1961; they have 3 children.

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