Acted in classics Manthan and Malgudi Days, Sahitya Akademi awardee Girish Karnad revisited historical figure in plays such as Tughlaq and Yayati from Mahabharata.
What made him ‘Akbar the Great’ was not the might of his armies alone, but the political architecture he built to sustain power over a subcontinent teeming with diversity.
Nicely portrayed the man of theatre, the man of literature and the the man who ‘lived on his terms’ even in his death
In death, as in life, Simple living, high thinking. The family declined a state funeral. Rest in peace.