Who among the following is best known for his plays 'Yayati' and 'Tughlaq'?
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. Girish Karnad.
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- Girish Karnad is known for his plays 'Yayati' and 'Tughlaq'.
- He wrote his first play 'Yayati' in 1961 at the age of 23 when he was studying at Oxford.
- He was a well-known contemporary writer, actor, film director and playwright of India.
- He wrote his first play 'Yayati' in Kannada language in 1961. Which was translated into Hindi by B.R. Narayan has done.
- Girish Karnad has taken the plot of the play 'Yayati' from a mythological background.
- Tughlaq was such a drama of his, whose writing-publication and multilingual translations-performances earned him a reputation as a dramatist at the national and later international level.
- He received the Jnanpith Award for Kannada, the highest literary honor in India.