Yazdi Karanjia
Yazdi Naoshriwan Karanjia is a Gujarati theatre person from India. He is based in Surat and widely noted as one of the doyens of Parsi theatre.
Career
For more than 60 years, his troupe has performed comedy plays. With Chandravadan Mehta, he has created Tapitate Tapidas, a comedy radio series on Akashvani, which ran for more than 400 episodes. Later it was also published as a book. Some of his popular comedy plays include Bicharo Barjor, Dinshajina Dabba Gul and Kutarani Punchhadi Vanki. He rans Cambay Institute of Commerce, a coaching institute.In January 2020, he was awarded with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of India, for his services in the field of the arts.