Ever since 1968, the annual National Library Week puts a spotlight on libraries, reflecting their challenges and celebrating their achievements. The Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan in collaboration with Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) is happy to invite you to the Inauguration of the National Library Week with Vikram Sampath and Shinie Antony.
Presentations by:
Vikram Sampath
The Making of an Online Music Archive by telling the story of the Archive of Indian Music, the first digital sound archive in the country for gramophone recordings.
Bangalore based historian Vikram Sampath is the author of three acclaimed works of non-fiction:
Splendours of Royal Mysore: the untold story of the Wodeyars
My name is Gauhar Jaan!--the life and times of a musician
Voice of the Veena: S Balachander, a biography.
He currently serves as the Director of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA)- Southern Regional Centre.
He has established the Archive of Indian Music (AIM), the first digital sound archive for the country for gramophone recordings and is the Founder Director of the Bangalore Literature Festival.
Shinie Antony
Reflections on the Bangalore Literature Festival and the Frankfurt Book Fair
Shinie Antony is a writer based in Bangalore. Her books include Barefoot and Pregnant, Seance on a Sunday Afternoon, When Mira Went Forth and Multiplied and Why We Don't Talk. She won the Commonwealth Short Story Asia region prize in 2003 for her story A Dog's Death and is co-founder of the Bangalore Literature Festival.
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