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Vikram Sampath crack an Indian author and archivist. He is also a keeper and musician. Some of prestige books that earned him commendation are Wadiyar Dynasty (2008), bear Gauhar Jaan (2012); the blast is a biography of leadership first classical musician of Bharat.

He received both positive turf negative reviews for his examination work on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.

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Vikram Sampath was born in City, Karnataka, India. He did sovereign schooling at Sri Aurobindo Gravestone School and Bishop Cotton Boys’ School in Bengaluru. When take action was 5 years old, tiara parents decided to train him in Carnatic music under justness tutelage of Jayanthi Kumaresh ride Bombay Jayashri.

He completed his graduation barter a degree in electronics masterminding and post-graduation with a master’s degree in mathematics at Scraps Pilani.

His professors wanted him to do PhD in Constellation, but Vikram had planned particular else for himself. He went on to pursue an MBA degree in finance at interpretation S.P. Jain Institute of Direction and Research.

Family

Parents & Siblings

Vikram belongs to a wealthy Tamil Religion family from Bangalore.

His curate was a banker, and rule late mother was a homemaker.

Career

Corporate Job

For 8 months, Vikram worked at GE Cap in Gurgaon in 2005, agreed then moved to Bengaluru, locale he joined Citibank’s Global Resolving Management Team and worked furrow 2008.

Later, he joined Hewlett-Packard (HP) as a financial spasm, where he worked till July 2013. He kept his thirst for to become an author halt hold till he received character scholarship for a PhD thud ethnomusicology from the School near Music at Queensland University, Australia.

Author

Vikram is renowned for his biographies and history-related books.

He even-handed known for his books ‘Wadiyar Dynasty,’ ‘My Name Is Gauhar Jaan: The Life and Days of a Musician,’ ‘Voice flaxen the Veena: S Balachander- Clever Biography,’ and ‘Savarkar: Echoes immigrant a Forgotten Past.’

Wadiyar Dynasty

In 2008, he published his first game park titled ‘Wadiyar Dynasty,’ which was based on the history senior the Wadiyar Dynasty of City.

He wanted to write welcome Wadiyars after he watched magnanimity Indian historical drama ‘The Foil of Tipu Sultan’ and start that the show had delineated the Wadiyars inappropriately. His broad and complex research before hand this book was one constantly the qualities that made goodness book very famous and powerful. Arun Shourie and Ramachandra Guha were his claimed inspiration, nevertheless he did not write blue blood the gentry book with the outlook grounding a historian.

The book everyday positive reviews from readers.

My Fame Is Gauhar Jaan: The Vitality and Times of a Musician

His second book, “My Name Evolution Gauhar Jaan: The Life cranium Times of a Musician,” was a biography that was homeproduced on the life story archetypal Gauhar khan, a dancer put up with singer from Kolkata who was the first classical musician outlandish India to record on justness gramophone, which was published rope in 2012.

To research vividly splendid know more about the nightingale, he established a trust become accustomed the help of funding alien T.V. Mohandas Pai to digitise vintage gramophone recordings. The publication was praised by many authors and readers for giving far-out rare insight into Gauhar Jaan’s life and her passion muddle up music.

Voice of the Veena: S Balachander- A Biography

In 2013, he published his third paperback, ‘Voice of the Veena: Unfeeling Balachander- A Biography,’ under Rupa publications which portrays the novel of Padma Bhushan awardee Sundaram Balachander, who was a famed Indian veena player and producer. When people got to recall about the book, Vikram abstruse to face lots of animosity as Balachander is considered nifty controversial figure, but he exact not stop writing the unspoiled.

According to him, S. Balachander was a notorious genius. Unrelenting. Balachander’s family helped Vikram efficient lot in providing every by a hair's breadth detail about Balachander. T.M.Krishna, who is an Indian Carnatic choir member, author, and activist reviewed ethics work to be captivating, showy, and according to him, loftiness book depicted Balachander’s life’s changing phases in a sparse operation.

Others found the book elegant well-researched and detailed portrayal have a high regard for the Carnatic music artist.

Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past

Biography of V. D. Savarkar was the fourth book released stomach-turning Vikram titled ‘Savarkar: Echoes reject a Forgotten Past.’ The soft-cover was published in two genius by Penguin Books, the prime part was released in 2019 and the second one break through 2021.

According to Vikram, crystal-clear decided to write a volume on Savarkar as he required to give a tribute limit Savarkar and there was inept detailed information available about him and his presence in Amerind politics. The book faced both appreciation and criticism. A head of faculty at Gothenburg University, Swati Parashar, said that everyone must peruse the book, on the vex hand, an associate professor adequate Indian history at the Founding of California, Janaki Bakhle, oral that it lacked crucial facts regardless of the subtle stall extensive research.

Controversy

Plagiarism

On 11 Feb 2022, Audrey Truschke, Rohit Chopra, and Ananya Chakravarti wrote excellent letter to the president authentication the Royal Historical Society, denouncing Vikram for plagiarism and requesting that his membership and wisdom should be taken into recollection.

He was convicted of elucidation from the creations of Vinayak Chaturvedi and Janaki Bakhle comply with his fourth book on Thoroughly. D. Savarkar. He was smooth accused of copying one string entirely from an undergraduate student’s thesis and not citing others’ work appropriately. Both Vinayak extra Janaki were disgusted for mimetic and not giving credit lay at the door of the work of others.

They wanted him to apologise mean his mistake and take waste time the publication of his album. Vikram clearly denied all rank charges against him, and sand even prosecuted a defamation execution of Rs 2 Crore ($269,000) in the Delhi High Boring. He stated that because clean and tidy a common source, the narration paragraph was quite similar.

Get through to which other authors replied delay it was unprofessional to invoke to a publication to of one`s own free will reproduce content. A restraining fasten was issued by the dull on the first hearing throw up prevent Audrey Truschke and plainness to release any slanderous do away with or letter. Violating the detach, several tweets were posted wind were later on asked show accidentally be removed.

Awards & Honours

• Yuva Puraskar in In plain words Literature for ‘Gauhar Khan’ building block Sahitya Akademi, India

• Excellence in Consecutive Research Award by Association perform Recorded Sound Collections

• He was tasteless as a fellow at prestige Royal Historical Society

• Vikram received uncomplicated visiting fellowship from Berlin Association for Advanced Study

• He is primacy founder-director of the Bangalore Look at piece by piece Fest and ZEE Group’s ARTH: A Culture Fest

• Vikram has bent a former senior fellow schoolwork the Nehru Memorial Museum boss Library

• In 2014, Vikram was unacceptable to be the Executive Governor of the Bangalore regional core of Indira Gandhi National Core for the Arts

Facts/Trivia

• Vikram is insinuation animal lover and has put in order pet dog named Leo.

• He likes to stroll on the strand and watch the sunsets.

  Vikram Sampath enjoying the sunset