rakshasa

A carved stone Rakshasa head from 9th century Indonesia stares into a room where a Chinese ceramic horseman from around 200 B.C. is on display.

In Rakshasa Tangadi, the 2018 play that was the last one he wrote, Karnad returned to history.

From the crafty ebullience of a rakshasa with a new idea into a gossipy Malayali with a scandal to spread.

Like some other tenacious malware strains, Rakshasa infects the computer’s BIOS, the part of a computer’s memory that boots its operating system and initializes other system components.

He admits that the attacker would need control of the computer before installing Rakshasa–not much comfort given his concern about manufacturers installing a piece of ultra-stealthy malware.