About the Book: This Life at Play: Memoirs
Girish Karnad was one of modern Indias greatest cultural figures: an
accomplished actor, a path-breaking director, an innovative administrator, a
clear-headed and erudite thinker, a public intellectual with an unwavering moral
compass, and above all, the most extraordinarily gifted playwright of his times.
This Life at Play, translated from the Kannada in part by Karnad himself and in
part by Srinath Perur, covers the first half of his remarkable life-from his
childhood in Sirsi and his early engagement with local theatre, his education in
Dharwad, Bombay and Oxford, to his career in publishing, his successes and
travails in