"Everybody must definitely nod their head in appreciation at the list of books Dr. Bhyrappa has read in order to write…"

"The next prime minister (Narendra Modi) may be a man who organised the slaughter of more than 3000 Muslims in Gujarat…"

"I see a legacy of my generation... I am happy to belong to a generation that had a Dharmaveer Bharti, a Mohan Rakesh,…"

"I've had a good life....I have managed to do all I could wish for --even be a government servant. Now I feel whatever…"

"What a person understands as his or her Purusharthas could very according to his or her background stageand station i…"

"I have been lucky in having multipronged career. You know how I have been an actor, a publisher, a film maker. But in…"

"I was excited by the story of Yayati. This exchange of ages between the father and the son, which seemed to be terrib…"

"The subject that interests most writers is, of course, themselves and it is easy subject to talk about. But you know …"

"When people all around us are slaughtered in the name of a temple (and masjid) I hear echoes from those times long past."

"Girish Karnad is the foremost playwright of the contemporary Indian stage. He has given the Indian theatre a richness…"