Online reading tribute to Girish Karnad
As many as 55 individuals, together with some from overseas, paid a befitting tribute to playwright and Jnanpith award winner Girish Karnad on his demise anniversary on Thursday, by way of an entire reading of the memoirs of the late writer, Aadaadta Asyushya.
In the net occasion that started at 6 a.m. on Thursday, individuals from the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany aside from varied theatre and literary personalities and fanatics took their turns to learn out parts from the memoirs allotted to them by Abhinaya Bharati, the Dharwad-based theatre group which organised and coordinated the distinctive tribute.
Abhinaya Bharati president Arvind Kulkarni kick-started the occasion by starting the reading session on the scheduled time. And, others adopted him one after the opposite as per the time allotted to them. The reading classes which was streamed stay on the Facebook web page of Abhinaya Bharati went on easily.
Each participant was allotted 20 minutes to learn a median of six pages from Aadaadta Asyushya, which is split into 11 chapters named after locations the place Mr. Karnad spent his life.
Theatre character and movie director T.S. Nagabharana joined the stay session that stretched to over 18 hours because the forty sixth participant and readout the portion allotted to him. Theatre character Shripati Manjanbail was the 14th reader.
Along with Mr. Arvind Kulkarni, Vinayak Naik and Prajna Mattihalli, Jyothi Dixit, Sumit Maitri, Vallish Shastri (from the U.S.), Jai Hanmanthgad (from the U.K.), Revati Shripati Manjanbail and Professor Basavaraj Donur coordinated the occasion, which noticed enthusiastic participation from kids to senior residents. The reading classes concluded at round midnight.