Girish Karnard Controversial Obituaries-Sunday Reading

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Success of any Writer depends on how their work adapted in society. How people react to their work and how people praise their work. There are always two sides: aspects or reviews about any writer or any work of art are positive and negative or true or false.

How one considers a person as a positive or negative all depends on the perspective or way of looking of that particular person. Throughout his life Girish Karnard remained as very great as well as a controversial writer whose work creates so much controversy.After death there are so many obituaries regarding Girish Karnad.

Controversies regarding Girish Karnad

◆ At the TATA festival held in Mumbai 2012, Karnard was invited to talk about "His Life in Theatre", Instead of this subject he dragged into the topic that V.S. Naipaul has "antipathy towards Hindu Muslim."

◆Second controversy created by Karnard after few weeks later by saying that "Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem was a great poet but Second rate Playwright"

◆Third one, During celebration of the Anniversary of Muslim Ruler Tipu Sultan he said that Banglore International Airport should have been name after Tipu Sultan.

◆Girish karnard also drew the attention of the people when he published his play "Tughlaq" , there are so many questions regarding the play. He makes political satire on Nehru era through his play. In one of his articles Karnard himself has admitted that…

"The twenty years of Muhammad's rule are in many respect similar to the seventeen years of the Nehru era."

 Here are some great tweets….



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