Girish Karnad was more than just an accomplished actor and a celebrated playwright. He was a strong public voice who decried religious fundamentalism and defended freedom of expression. He passed away in Bengaluru on June 10 at the age of 81.
Category
🦄
CreativityTranscript
00:30Because she had struggled, she was very liberal sexually. Liberal in the way she helped widows, the way she brought up women.
00:50I remember that when I was about 35 and so on, a woman who was a cook in our house,
00:55wrote me a love letter saying, you know, I love you, you know, what can I do and so on and so on.
01:02So, I put it in my drawer and went away to shoot and when I came back there was no letter.
01:07So, I said to my mother, you know, there was a letter, I had a letter here, I had put it here, it has disappeared, what's to be done?
01:12So, she said, oh, you mean that letter written by that girl? Yes, at that age all girls feel like that.
01:17Why are you keeping that letter? Are you going to blackmail her? And she tore it up.
01:20The parents were demanding, no, you come back, you come back to India.
01:48And I felt these people are making demands on me. All that seemed suddenly coming to life in the story of
01:55Yayati and his demands on Puru. You know, you sacrifice your youth for me and so on.
02:01And suddenly the whole thing poured out as a play.
02:31Music
02:59This accused calls himself a musician.
03:03Music
03:29The whole notion that the world could exist and I could not be there, just completely stunned me.