India Booked | Chronicling Lives
b"In this episode of India Booked, host Ayushi Mona talks to Vikram Sampath, the\\nbest selling author of four acclaimed biographies, 'Splendours of Royal Mysore:\\nthe Untold Story of the Wodeyars' on the Mysore royal family; 'My Name is Gauhar\\nJaan: The Life and Times of a Musician'- the biography of India's first\\nrecording superstar Gauhar Jaan of Calcutta; 'Voice of the Veena: S Balachander\\n- A Biography', the story of eminent veena maestro late Dr. S Balachander and\\n'Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883\\u20131924' which is the first volume of\\na two-part biography about the legendary Indian revolutionary leader\\u2013 Vinayak\\nDamodar Savarkar.\\nVikram walks us through the process of research and the writing of a biography\\n(calling it a 'love affair') and the surprisingly vexing events that follow post\\npublication. They discuss the account and impact of each of his biographies and\\nlives of the misunderstood and forgotten characters in it, the troubles writers\\nface and about their extensive presence online, the issue with the lack of\\nnuance and the binary perspective of people.\\nTune in to find out more about his relation with music and history, his wish to\\nbe its 'night watchman', and about the Archive of Indian Music, which is India's\\nfirst digital sound archive for vintage recordings of the country."