Yazdi Naoshriwan Karanjia (born 3 March 1937,

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) is a Gujarati theatre person from India. He is based in

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and widely noted as one of the doyens of

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. For more than 60 years, his troupe has performed comedy plays. With

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, 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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