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Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani’s 'irritating' advice later became actor-writer Girish Karnad’s best investment everGirish Karnad, the celebrated playwright and actor, had an unexpected connection to India's IT boom. Initially reluctant, he invested in In...- Work-life balance: Those who worked never enjoyed what they created. Now, they want their kids to do the sameOld rich men are the modern Yayatis. Yayati is a character from the Mahabharata who wanted to stay young and so begged his sons to give him...
- The Marbles Of TimeSometimes, in his drunkenness, he even hurls them out of his window or lifts his mace and deals blows here and there, smashing into fragmen...
- Remembering Girish Karnad: Veteran playwright-actor who just won’t be RightOne of Kannada’s tallest literary figures, he never shied away from expressing his views.
- Girish Karnad dug the past to mine the newKarnad was playwright, filmmaker, actor and public intellectual.
- OBIT: A Rhodes scholar & math graduate, Girish Karnad, found a way to express creativity with wordsThe author worked with Oxford University Press from 1963 to 1969.
- Noted playwright-actor Girish Karnad passes away; PM Modi, President Kovind, Kamal Haasan pay tributeThe Jnanpith awardee died at his home in Bengaluru.
- When Bhupen Khakhar came out, through meI was a rookie reporter, he an eminent artist. He decided to talk about being gay at a time when homosexuality was a taboo subject
- Narayana Murthy: The Bhishma who will not be pinned out of the battlefield so easilyFounding members of businesses cling to the throne, and to power, even after retirement, insisting they are guides, and mentors, but actual...
- Classical dancers in Bengaluru explore feminism through lesser-known mythological charactersExponents find muses in unlikely, lesser-known personalities such as Kaikeyi & Surpanakha.
- How startups TaxiForSure, Urban Ladder, Lenskart & Ibibo made their way towards successEntrepreneurs barely in their 20s and early 30s, they have learnt a crucial life lesson: Better to have tried and failed than not having tr...
- Pulping of Wendy Doniger’s book: How 'hurt sensibilities' of fringe groups muzzle scholarsIgnorance of the law is no defence against it. However, when one seeks to represent a culture or a nation, one expects better homework.
- Love's LabourFollowing the leaf-print of spring, your columnist journeyed to a 'roots-of-the-soil' nursery in Pune. His 'object of desire' was Madhavi L...
- Satyadev Dubey: A maverick theatre guruSatyadev Dubey, who passed away in a Mumbai hospital today after a long illness, was a maverick who went on to become a theatre guru.
- Noted theatre personality Satyadev Dubey deadRenowned director, actor and screenplay writer Satyadev Dubey passed away here this morning after suffering from a prolonged illness. He wa...
- Lust for lifeYayati committed infidelity and was cursed by his father-in-law , the Sage Shukracharya, to lose his wife and virility but not his desire!
- Have your cake and eat it tooWhat should people desire in life? The answer would depend on who is doing the desiring, and at what stage of life, and under what sort of ...
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