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This Life At Play: Even with its declared omissions, Girish Karnad's 'half-tale' memoir is a complex, nuanced narration
Quietly released last month even as the world of arts and letters observed his 83rd birth anniversary, Girish Karnad’s This Life At Play is the English translation of his memoirs in Kannada, Aadaadta Aayushya (which translates as ’life moves on while playing’).
That volume was published in 2011 by the Dharwad-based publishing outfit Manohara Grantha Mala, the well-regarded bastion of Kannada literature. Fifty years earlier (in 1961), they had also propitiously brought out Karnad’s first full-length play, Yayati, when the late doyen was not yet 25.
Looking back in the book, Karnad places that feverishly written, but far from inchoate, early manuscript — in which a son diligently exchanges his youth with his father’s old age — both in the contrary context of his own imminent severing-of-the-umbilical-cord as it were, on the eve of his setting sail for a
