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Vijay Tendulkar

Vijay Tendulkar (Marathi: विजय तेंडुलकर) (7 January 1928 – 19 May 2008) was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marāthi. He is best known for his plays, Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe (1967), Ghāshirām Kotwāl (1972), and Sakhārām Binder (1972).Many of Tendulkar’s plays derived inspiration from real-life incidents or social upheavals, which provides clear light on harsh realities. He provided his guidance to students studying “Playwright writing” in US universities. For over five decades, Tendulkar had been a highly influential dramatist and theater personality in Mahārāshtra.
Early life
Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar was born on 7 January 1928 in a Bhal

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Mulk Raj Anand

Mulk Raj Anand was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R.K. Narayan, Ahmed Ali and Raja Rao, was one of the first India-based writers in English to gain an international readership. Anand is admired for his novels and short stories, which have acquired the status of being classic works of modern Indian English literature, noted for their perceptive insight into the lives of the oppressed and their analyses of impoverishment, exploitation and misfortune. He is also notable for being among the first writers to incorporate Punjabi and Hindustani idioms into English.

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Wole Soyinka

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Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "wide cultural perspective and... poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence", the first sub-Saharan African to be honoured in that category.
Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family in Abeokuta. In 1954, he attended Government College in Ibadan, and subsequently University College Ibadan and the University of Leeds in England. After studying in Nigeria and the UK, he worked with the Royal Court Theatre in London. He went on to write plays that were produced

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Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964) and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993) and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television and film productions of his own and others' works.

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Aristotle

Aristotle (Greek: Αριστοτέλης; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science.
Little is known about Aristotle's life. He was born in the city of Stagira in northern Greece during the Classical period. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, and he was brought up by a guardian. At 17 or 18, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of 37 (c. 3

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Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia. He has written historical fiction and non-fiction works discussing topics such as colonialism and climate change.
Ghosh studied at The Doon School, Dehradun, and earned a doctorate in social anthropology at the University of Oxford. He worked at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi and several academic institutions. His first novel, The Circle of Reason, was published in 1986, which he followed with later fictional works, including The Shadow Lines and The Glass Palace.

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Jessica Hagedorn

Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn was born (and raised) in Manila, Philippines in 1949. With her background, a Scots-Irish-French-Filipino mother and a Filipino-Spanish father with one Chinese ancestor, Hagedorn adds a unique perspective to Asian American performance and literature. Her mixed media style often incorporates song, poetry, images, and spoken dialogue.

Moving to San Francisco in 1963, Hagedorn received her education at the American Conservatory Theater training program. To further pursue playwriting and music, she moved to New York in 1978.

Joseph Papp produced her first play Mango Tango in 1978. Hagedorn's other productions include Tenement Lover, Holy Food, and Teenytown.

In 1985, 1986, and 1988, she received Macdowell Colony Fellowship

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Arthur Miller

Works of American playwright Arthur Asher Miller include Death of a Salesman (1949), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and The Crucible (1953).

This essayist, a prominent figure in literature and cinema for over 61 years, composed a wide variety, such as celebrated A View from the Bridge and All My Sons , still studied and performed worldwide. Miller often in the public eye most famously refused to give evidence to the un-American activities committee of the House of Representatives, received award for drama, and married Marilyn Monroe. People at the time considered the greatest Miller.

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T.S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." He wrote the poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party; and the essay Tradition and the Individual Talent. Eliot was born an American, moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at the age of 25), and became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39.

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Vijay Tendulkar

Vijay Tendulkar (Marathi: विजय तेंडुलकर) (7 January 1928 – 19 May 2008) was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marāthi. He is best known for his plays, Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe (1967), Ghāshirām Kotwāl (1972), and Sakhārām Binder (1972).Many of Tendulkar’s plays derived inspiration from real-life incidents or social upheavals, which provides clear light on harsh realities. He provided his guidance to students studying “Playwright writing” in US universities. For over five decades, Tendulkar had been a highly influential dramatist and theater personality in Mahārāshtra.
Early life
Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar was born on 7 January 1928 in a Bhal

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Ruskin Bond

Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India. In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. Her themes include the Indian experience, contemporary America, women, immigration, history, myth, and the joys and challenges of living in a multicultural world. Her work is widely known, as she has been published in over 50 magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and her writing has been included in over 50 anthologies. Her works have been translated into 29 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Hindi and Japanese. Divakaruni also writes for children and young adults.Her novels One Amazing Thing, Oleander Girl, Sister of My Heart and Palace of Illusions are currently in the process of being made into movies. http://www.chitradivakaruni.com/books.... Her ne

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S.L. Bhyrappa

Dr S.L. Bhyrappa is a litterateur par excellence. He writes in the south Indian language, Kannada, and has been the bestselling novelist for over 25 years now. His novels are widely translated to pan Indian languages. He is the bestselling novelist in Marathi over the past decade and is among the top-five bestselling authors in Hindi. He is a conscious artist that depicts fundamental human emotions in his novels. In addition to his profound knowledge of Indian philosophical and cultural traditions, Professor Bhyrappa has since his childhood had intense personal experiences in both rural and urban milieu. Consequently, his characters are deeply rooted in Indian soil. Seminars have been and are being held on his novels, and volumes of literar

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Mahesh Dattani

Mahesh Dattani is an Indian director, actor, playwright and writer. He wrote such plays as Final Solutions, Dance Like a Man, Bravely Fought the Queen, On a Muggy Night in Mumbai, Tara,Thirty Days in September and'The murder that never was', starring Dheiraj Kapoor. He is the first playwright in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi award. His plays have been directed by eminent directors like Arvind Gaur, Alyque Padamsee and Lillete Dubey. Dattani is also a film director. His debut film is Mango Souffle, adapted from one of his plays. He also wrote and directed the movie Morning Raaga.

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Fakir Mohan Senapati

Fakir Mohan Senapati (Odia: ଫକୀର ମୋହନ ସେନାପତି), often referred to as Utkala Byasa Kabi (Odisha's Vyasa), was an Indian writer, poet, philosopher and social reformer. He played a leading role in establishing the distinct identity of Odia, a language mainly spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. Fakirmohan Senapati is regarded as the father of Odia nationalism and modern Odia literature.
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Tony Joseph

Tony Joseph is an Indian journalist and former editor of Businessworld magazine. He is also the author of the best-selling book Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From (2018). Until 2018, he was also the chairman and co-founder of Mindworks Global Media Services. He is based in New Delhi. Joseph has been an editor and a journalist for over three decades and was, at various times, features editor of The Economic Times, associate editor of Business Standard and editor of Businessworld magazine (from 1998). His articles have appeared in Outlook India, Quartz, Live Mint and The Hindu.

Early Indians is focused on four prehistoric migrations that shaped the demography of India, including the migrations after 2000 BC.

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R.K. Narayan

R. K. Narayan is among the best known and most widely read Indian novelists who wrote in English.

R.K. Narayan was born in Madras, South India, in 1906, and educated there and at Maharaja's College in Mysore. His first novel, Swami and Friends and its successor, The Bachelor of Arts, are both set in the enchanting fictional territory of Malgudi and are only two out of the twelve novels he based there. In 1958 Narayan's work The Guide won him the National Prize of the Indian Literary Academy, his country's highest literary honor.

In addition to his novels, Narayan has authored five collections of short stories, including A Horse and Two Goats, Malguidi Days, and Under the Banyan Tree, two travel books, two volumes of essays, a volume of memoi

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Amruta Patil

Amruta Patil, is an Indian graphic novel author and painter.

Patil spent her childhood in Goa. She has a BFA from Goa College of Art (1999), and Master of Fine Arts degree from Tufts University, School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (2004).

She worked as a copywriter at Enterprise Nexus (Mumbai) in 1999-2000. She was the Co-founder, Editor of the quarterly magazine, 'Mindfields' (2007-2012). She was awarded TED Fellowship in 2009.

Her debut graphic novel, Kari, commissioned and published by VK Karthika at HarperCollins India, explored themes of sexuality, friendship and death; and heralded Patil as India's first female graphic novelist.

She was awarded the Ministry of Women and Child Development's Nari Shakti Puraskar in March 2017 at th

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Samuel Beckett

Novels of Samuel Barclay Beckett, Irish writer, include Murphy in 1938 and Malone Dies in 1951; a wider audience know his absurdist plays, such as Waiting for Godot in 1952 and Krapp's Last Tape in 1959, and he won the Nobel Prize of 1969 for literature.

Samuel Barclay Beckett, an avant-garde theater director and poet, lived in France for most of his adult life. He used English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black gallows humor.

People regard most influence of Samuel Barclay Beckett of the 20th century. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce strongly influenced him, whom people consider as one modernist. People sometimes consider him as an inspiration to many later first p

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Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major Norwegian playwright largely responsible for the rise of modern realistic drama. He is often referred to as the "father of modern drama." Ibsen is held to be the greatest of Norwegian authors and one of the most important playwrights of all time, celebrated as a national symbol by Norwegians.

His plays were considered scandalous to many of his era, when Victorian values of family life and propriety largely held sway in Europe and any challenge to them was considered immoral and outrageous. Ibsen's work examined the realities that lay behind many facades, possessing a revelatory nature that was disquieting to many contemporaries.

Ibsen largely founded the modern stage by introducing a critical eye and free inquir

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Goruru Ramaswamy Iyengar

ಗೊರೂರು ರಾಮಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಅಯ್ಯಂಗಾರ್(ಜುಲೈ ೪, ೧೯೦೪ - ಸೆಪ್ಟೆಂಬರ್ ೮, ೧೯೯೧) ತಮ್ಮ ಪ್ರಬಂಧ ಲೇಖನಗಳಿಂದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಛಾಪು ಮೂಡಿಸಿದವರು. ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯ ಚಳುವಳಿ, ಮೈಸೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಜಾ ಸರ್ಕಾರಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಚಳುವಳಿ, ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಏಕೀಕರಣ ಚಳುವಳಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹೋರಾಡಿ ಹರಿಜನೋದ್ಧಾರ ಮತ್ತು ಗ್ರಾಮೊದ್ಧಾರಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಶ್ರಮಿಸಿದ ಅವರೊಬ್ಬ ಅಪ್ರತಿಮ ಗಾಂಧಿವಾದಿ. ಗೊರೂರು ಗ್ರಾಮ, ಹೇಮಾವತಿ ನದಿ – ಈ ಎರಡೂ ಗೊರೂರರ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯದಿಂದ ಅಮರವಾದವು. ‘ಹೇಮಾವತಿ’, ಆ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಸಮಸ್ತಕ್ಕೂ ಸ್ಪೂರ್ತಿ. ಹೀಗೆ ಒಂದು ಊರಿನೊಡನೆ, ನದಿಯೊಡನೆ ಅಭಿನ್ನತೆ ಸಾಧಿಸಿದ ಲೇಖಕರು ವಿರಳವೇ. ‘ಹಳ್ಳಿಯ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳು’, ‘ಗರುಡಗಂಬದ ದಾಸಯ್ಯ’, ‘ನಮ್ಮ ಊರಿನ ರಸಿಕರು’, ‘ಬೆಟ್ಟದ ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮತ್ತು ಇತರ ಪ್ರಬಂಧಗಳು’, ‘ಕಥೆಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ವಿನೋದ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳು’, ‘ಬೆಸ್ತರ ಕರಿಯ’, ‘ಹೇಮಾವತಿಯ ತೀರದಲ್ಲಿ ಮತ್ತು ಇತರ ಪ್ರಬಂಧಗಳು’ – ಈ ಸಂಕಲನಗಳಲ್ಲಿನ ಗೊರೂರರ ಪ್ರಬಂಧಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕಥಾಂಶ ದಟ್ಟವಾಗಿ ಸೇರಿಕೊಂಡಿವೆ. ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ ಗೊರೂರರ ಪ್ರಬಂಧಗಳು, ‘ಪ್ರಬಂಧ’ ಎಂಬ ಶಬ್ದದ ಸೀಮಿ

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U.R. Ananthamurthy

Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy was a contemporary writer and critic in the Kannada language and is considered as one of the pioneers of the Navya movement. He is the sixth person among eight recipients of the Jnanpith Award for the Kannada language, the highest literary honor conferred in India. In 1998, he received the Padma Bhushan award from the Government of India and in 2013, he was nominated for Man Booker International Prize.

Ananthamurthy's works have been translated into several Indian and European languages and have been awarded with important literary prizes. His main works include Samskara, Bhava, Bharathi Pura, and Avasthe. He has written numerous short stories as well. Several of his novels and short fictions have been ma

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Yashwant Chittal

Yashwant Vithoba Chittal was a Kannada fiction writer born in Hanehalli, Uttara Kannada District

He completed his primary school education from his village school and his high school from the Gibbs High School, Kumta (1944).Later he did his Bachelors in science and Bachelors in technology both from Bombay University being a top ranker and gold medalist in the year 1955 and master's degree in chemical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, United States, and simultaneously pursued a career in science and technology along with literature. His contributions in the field of Polymer Science and synthetic resins was well recognized and he was selected as Fellow of Plastics and Rubber Institute, London.

He is well know for his short stori

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ಜೋಗಿ | Jogi

Jogi Girish Rao Hatwar
ಹುಟ್ಟೂರು ಮಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಸುರತ್ಕಲ್ ಸಮೀಪದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಹೊಸಬೆಟ್ಟು. ಹತ್ವಾರ್ ಮನೆತನಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಿದ ಜೋಗಿ ಓದಿದ್ದು ಗುರುವಾಯನಕೆರೆ ಮತ್ತು ಉಪ್ಪಿನಂಗಡಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ. ತಂದೆ ಶ್ರೀಧರರಾವ್ ಕೃಷಿಕರು. ತಾಯಿ ಶಾರದೆ. ಹಿರಿಯ ಸೋದರ ಹತ್ವಾರ ನಾರಾಯಣ ರಾವ್ ಯಕ್ಷಗಾನ ಪ್ರಸಂಗಗಳನ್ನು ಬರೆದು, ತಾಳಮದ್ದಲೆ ಅರ್ಥಧಾರಿಯಾಗಿ, ಲೇಖಕರಾಗಿ ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧರು. ೧೮ನೇ ವಯಸ್ಸಿಗೆ ಬರಹ ಆರಂಭಿಸಿದ ಜೋಗಿ ಓದಿದ್ದು ಬಿ.ಕಾಂ. ಕಾಲೇಜು ದಿನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಅವರ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಆಸಕ್ತಿಯನ್ನು ರೂಪಿಸಿದವರು ಬಳ್ಳ ವೆಂಕಟರಮಣ. ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿಗೆ ೧೯೮೯ರಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಲಿಟ್ಟ ಗಿರೀಶ ರಾವ್ ಹತ್ವಾರ್ ಅವರನ್ನು ಜೋಗಿಯಾಗಿ ರೂಪಿಸಿದವರು ವೈಎನ್ ಕೆ. ಸದ್ಯ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಲೆನಿಂತಿರುವ ಜೋಗಿ ಪತ್ನಿ ಜ್ಯೋತಿ, ಮಗಳು ಖುಷಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಜೀವಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

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Dharamvir Bharati

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Mahesh Dattani

Mahesh Dattani is an Indian director, actor, playwright and writer. He wrote such plays as Final Solutions, Dance Like a Man, Bravely Fought the Queen, On a Muggy Night in Mumbai, Tara,Thirty Days in September and'The murder that never was', starring Dheiraj Kapoor. He is the first playwright in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi award. His plays have been directed by eminent directors like Arvind Gaur, Alyque Padamsee and Lillete Dubey. Dattani is also a film director. His debut film is Mango Souffle, adapted from one of his plays. He also wrote and directed the movie Morning Raaga.

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Shantinath Desai

Shantinath Desai (ಶಾಂತಿನಾಥ ದೇಸಾಯಿ, 1929–1998) was one of the leading modern authors of the Navya (modernist) movement in Kannada Literature.

In most of his novels, short stories, and essays, Desai explores the challenges of a changing society and its drift from traditional values. His first novel, Mukti (1961), narrates the protagonist's quest for an independent identity, liberation from the influence of a friend and his infatuation with the friend's sister. The second novel, Vikshepa (1971), tells the story of a village youth from northern Karnataka, who attempts to flee from his traditional environment by studying English in Bombay and later relocating to England. He was one of the best known writers in the genre of short stories in Kannad

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Marie Clements

Marie Clements (born January 10, 1962) is a Métis playwright, performer, director, producer and screenwriter. Marie was founding artistic director of urban ink productions, and is currently co-artistic director of red diva projects, and director of her new film company Working Pajama Lab Entertainment. Clements lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia. As a writer Marie has worked in a variety of mediums including theatre, performance, film, multi-media, radio, and television.

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ಜೋಗಿ | Jogi

Jogi Girish Rao Hatwar
ಹುಟ್ಟೂರು ಮಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಸುರತ್ಕಲ್ ಸಮೀಪದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಹೊಸಬೆಟ್ಟು. ಹತ್ವಾರ್ ಮನೆತನಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಿದ ಜೋಗಿ ಓದಿದ್ದು ಗುರುವಾಯನಕೆರೆ ಮತ್ತು ಉಪ್ಪಿನಂಗಡಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ. ತಂದೆ ಶ್ರೀಧರರಾವ್ ಕೃಷಿಕರು. ತಾಯಿ ಶಾರದೆ. ಹಿರಿಯ ಸೋದರ ಹತ್ವಾರ ನಾರಾಯಣ ರಾವ್ ಯಕ್ಷಗಾನ ಪ್ರಸಂಗಗಳನ್ನು ಬರೆದು, ತಾಳಮದ್ದಲೆ ಅರ್ಥಧಾರಿಯಾಗಿ, ಲೇಖಕರಾಗಿ ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧರು. ೧೮ನೇ ವಯಸ್ಸಿಗೆ ಬರಹ ಆರಂಭಿಸಿದ ಜೋಗಿ ಓದಿದ್ದು ಬಿ.ಕಾಂ. ಕಾಲೇಜು ದಿನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಅವರ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಆಸಕ್ತಿಯನ್ನು ರೂಪಿಸಿದವರು ಬಳ್ಳ ವೆಂಕಟರಮಣ. ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿಗೆ ೧೯೮೯ರಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಲಿಟ್ಟ ಗಿರೀಶ ರಾವ್ ಹತ್ವಾರ್ ಅವರನ್ನು ಜೋಗಿಯಾಗಿ ರೂಪಿಸಿದವರು ವೈಎನ್ ಕೆ. ಸದ್ಯ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಲೆನಿಂತಿರುವ ಜೋಗಿ ಪತ್ನಿ ಜ್ಯೋತಿ, ಮಗಳು ಖುಷಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಜೀವಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

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Goruru Ramaswamy Iyengar

ಗೊರೂರು ರಾಮಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಅಯ್ಯಂಗಾರ್(ಜುಲೈ ೪, ೧೯೦೪ - ಸೆಪ್ಟೆಂಬರ್ ೮, ೧೯೯೧) ತಮ್ಮ ಪ್ರಬಂಧ ಲೇಖನಗಳಿಂದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಛಾಪು ಮೂಡಿಸಿದವರು. ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯ ಚಳುವಳಿ, ಮೈಸೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಜಾ ಸರ್ಕಾರಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಚಳುವಳಿ, ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಏಕೀಕರಣ ಚಳುವಳಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹೋರಾಡಿ ಹರಿಜನೋದ್ಧಾರ ಮತ್ತು ಗ್ರಾಮೊದ್ಧಾರಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಶ್ರಮಿಸಿದ ಅವರೊಬ್ಬ ಅಪ್ರತಿಮ ಗಾಂಧಿವಾದಿ. ಗೊರೂರು ಗ್ರಾಮ, ಹೇಮಾವತಿ ನದಿ – ಈ ಎರಡೂ ಗೊರೂರರ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯದಿಂದ ಅಮರವಾದವು. ‘ಹೇಮಾವತಿ’, ಆ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಸಮಸ್ತಕ್ಕೂ ಸ್ಪೂರ್ತಿ. ಹೀಗೆ ಒಂದು ಊರಿನೊಡನೆ, ನದಿಯೊಡನೆ ಅಭಿನ್ನತೆ ಸಾಧಿಸಿದ ಲೇಖಕರು ವಿರಳವೇ. ‘ಹಳ್ಳಿಯ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳು’, ‘ಗರುಡಗಂಬದ ದಾಸಯ್ಯ’, ‘ನಮ್ಮ ಊರಿನ ರಸಿಕರು’, ‘ಬೆಟ್ಟದ ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮತ್ತು ಇತರ ಪ್ರಬಂಧಗಳು’, ‘ಕಥೆಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ವಿನೋದ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳು’, ‘ಬೆಸ್ತರ ಕರಿಯ’, ‘ಹೇಮಾವತಿಯ ತೀರದಲ್ಲಿ ಮತ್ತು ಇತರ ಪ್ರಬಂಧಗಳು’ – ಈ ಸಂಕಲನಗಳಲ್ಲಿನ ಗೊರೂರರ ಪ್ರಬಂಧಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕಥಾಂಶ ದಟ್ಟವಾಗಿ ಸೇರಿಕೊಂಡಿವೆ. ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ ಗೊರೂರರ ಪ್ರಬಂಧಗಳು, ‘ಪ್ರಬಂಧ’ ಎಂಬ ಶಬ್ದದ ಸೀಮಿ

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Percy Mtwa

Percy Mtwa is a South African actor, director, and playwright best known for his powerful contributions to anti-apartheid theatre. Born in Wattville, Benoni, he showed early promise in literature and the arts but left school at 17 to support his family. He began his artistic career as a singer and dancer before moving into acting, appearing in Destiny Calls in 1973.
Mtwa joined Gibson Kente’s theatre company in 1979 and later co-founded the Earth Players with Mbongeni Ngema. Together they created the internationally acclaimed play Woza Albert! in 1981, directed by Barney Simon and performed extensively in South Africa and abroad. He later wrote and directed Bopha!, which premiered at the Market Theatre and was later adapted into a feature

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Fakir Mohan Senapati

Fakir Mohan Senapati (Odia: ଫକୀର ମୋହନ ସେନାପତି), often referred to as Utkala Byasa Kabi (Odisha's Vyasa), was an Indian writer, poet, philosopher and social reformer. He played a leading role in establishing the distinct identity of Odia, a language mainly spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. Fakirmohan Senapati is regarded as the father of Odia nationalism and modern Odia literature.
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Mahasweta Devi

Mahasweta Devi was an Indian social activist and writer. She was born in 1926 in Dhaka, to literary parents in a Hindu Brahmin family. Her father Manish Ghatak was a well-known poet and novelist of the Kallol era, who used the pseudonym Jubanashwa. Mahasweta's mother Dharitri Devi was also a writer and a social worker.

She joined the Rabindranath Tagore-founded Vishvabharati University in Santiniketan and completed a B.A. (Hons) in English, and then finished an M.A. in English at Calcutta University as well. She later married renowned playwright Bijon Bhattacharya who was one of the founding fathers of the IPTA movement. In 1948, she gave birth to Nabarun Bhattacharya, currently one of Bengal's and India's leading novelist whose works are n

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Badal Sircar

Badal Sircar also known as Badal Sarkar, was an influential Indian dramatist and theatre director, most known for his anti-establishment plays during the Naxalite movement in the 1970s and taking theatre out of the proscenium and into public arena, when he founded his own theatre company, Shatabdi in 1976. He wrote more than fifty plays of which Ebong Indrajit, Basi Khabar, and Saari Raat are well known literary pieces, a pioneering figure in street theatre as well as in experimental and contemporary Bengali theatre with his egalitarian "Third Theatre", he prolifically wrote scripts for his Aanganmanch (courtyard stage) performances, and remains one of the most translated Indian playwrights. Though his early comedies were popular, it was hi

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A.N. Murthy Rao

Akkihebbalu Narasimha Murthy Rao was a Kannada author.

Though popular for his atheistic thoughts and writings, he has also written dramas, short stories and in addition headed a couple of government assignments. He was the first director of the Kannada & Sanskriti Department, spearheaded by Kengal Hanumanthaiah.

Born at Akkihebbalu in (Mandya District), he studied in Mysore and later taught English at Mysore University. He was the first Director of Kannada and Culture Department of the Karnataka Government and also presided over the 56th All India Kannada Sahitya Sammelana held in 1984.

He died on 23rd August 2003 living a full life of 103 years.

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P. Lankesh

Palya Lankesh (8 March 1935 – 25 January 2000) was an Indian poet, fiction writer, playwright, translator, screenplay writer and journalist who wrote in the Kannada language. He was also an award-winning film director.

Lankesh was born in the small village of Konagavalli in Shimoga, Karnataka. After graduating with an honours degree in English from Central College at Bengaluru, Lankesh completed his Master of Arts degree in English from Maharaja's College, Mysore.

His 1976 film Pallavi—a cinematic narration, told from the female protagonist's point of view and based on his novel Biruku—won the National Award for Best Direction (Swarna Kamal).] Lankesh quit his job as an assistant professor in English at Bangalore University in 1980 and starte

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Girish Karnad

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