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perennial rebel, a liberal to the core and a Jnanpith Award winning playwright, actor and filmmaker Girish Karnad’s death brings down the curtains on a life that was dedicated to art and literature. The success of his play (1961) led to more critically acclaimed plays, including (1971). He also wrote the screenplays of Kannada films like (1970) and (1971), co-directed by B.V. Karanth, which ushered in the new wave of Kannada cinema. A prominent social voice, he reportedly disparaged VS Naipaul and Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, which prompted filmmaker MS Sathyu to