From top: Khmer kitchen’s entrance, the life-size canoe and the Queen’s Terrace Bar
Cambodian motifs and flavours find room in the littérateur and playwright’s former writing studio, as Khmer Kitchen welcomes guests in Bengaluru
Number 697, JP Nagar 2nd Phase. Today, it is the address of Bengaluru’s new Southeast Asian restaurant with a Cambodian thrust, Khmer Kitchen. But until just three years ago, it was the residence and writing studio of late littérateur, actor and playwright, Girish Karnad. It was where he penned books, met with local luminaries like actor and theatre personality Arundhati Nag, and wrote his last play