Books have the power to open windows into the brain or out to new horizons. Here, I write about the first book that made me go, “Oh! I’ve never thought about it that way!” :)

Mumbai, June 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Celebrated playwright, actor and filmmaker late Girish Karnad had once offered a nuanced perspective on the relationship between theatre and newer forms of entertainment such as the medium of television and video. Further arguing that the rise of television and video should not be viewed as a threat to theatre, Girish had said that it should be viewed as means of bringing art and entertainment to a wider audience. Reflecting on the evolution of performing arts, Karnad, in an old interview with Doordarshan, noted that Indian entertainment had continuously adapted to changing times.

Mumbai, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Veteran actress Shabana Azmi is returning to North America with her theatre play ‘Broken Images’. The five-time National Award-winning actress and Padma Bhushan recipient will tour North America with the one-woman play, which was written by renowned playwright Girish Karnad and directed by theatre legend Alyque Padamsee. The production of the play has been hailed as a milestone in contemporary Indian theatre.

Mumbai, May 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) The late actor Girish Karnad, who is known for the Salman Khan-starrer 'Ek Tha Tiger', once spoke about how his background in mathematics helped him mount theatre plays. An old video of the actor, shared by the Indian public broadcaster Prasar Bharati, shows him talking about cross-wiring of art and science. He said in the video, “I find it very hard to put things in a play, I need to distance myself from them, I need to give it a form, and I think this is where my mathematical training was such a great help.