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| Video Discription | The riveting story of one of the greatest literary battles of India written by one of Tamil Nadu’s most respected historian: Who Owns That Song? The Battle for Subramania Bharati’s Copyright by A.R. Venkatachalapathy Read now: https://goo.gl/oQF5VY Subramania Bharati is one of Tamil Nadu’s most iconic poets. Every Tamil child knows his songs. In a dramatic twist of fate, these songs became the subject of one of India’s most fascinating legal cases. During his lifetime, Bharati was relatively unknown and died early at the age of 39. After his death the copyright of his works changed hands multiple times; going from his half-brother to a business-man and then a movie mogul, eventually to be nationalised by the state and given to the people. This was the first time ever, anywhere in the world, that the state acquired the copyright of a writer and put all his writings in the public domain. Since then no public figure – not Tagore, not Gandhi, not Nehru, not even Ambedkar – has had the honour of their works freed from the claws of copyright before the lapse of the stipulated time-period. The story leading up to the explosive announcement of the ‘nationalisation’ of Bharati’s copyright is full of drama, and in this book acclaimed scholar A.R. Venkatachalapathy brilliantly recreates this story - part legal thriller, part cultural history, Who Owns That Song? is one of the most exciting non-fiction books of this year. It has already got raves by some our most respected academics. About the author A.R. Venkatachalapathy, historian, writer and translator, is a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai. He has taught at universities in Tirunelveli, Chennai, Singapore and Chicago, and published widely on the social, cultural and intellectual history of colonial Tamil Nadu. In 2000, he published his most noted work Andha Kaalathil Kaapi Illai in Tamil, this was later translated into the English In Those Days There Was No Coffee. He currently serves on the advisory board of the Tamil Iyal Virudhu, an annual award given by Tamil Literary Garden, a Canada-based organisation. In 2007, he was awarded the V. K. R. V. Rao prize in Social Science Research. Praise for the book "A fascinating examination of the strange afterlife of one of our greatest poets. With formidable scholarship, A.R. Venkatachalapathy not only reveals how a motley group of film producers, politicians, movie stars, and family members fought to seize control of Subramania Bharati’s poems, but also sheds light on how literature shapes, and is shaped by, nationalism in modern India. Crisp, and wickedly alive to the ironies created when patriotism, greed, and love of poetry battle one other, this slender book deeply enriches our understanding of Bharati’s legacy." -Aravind Adiga "This slim volume is a little gem of Book History. The vigorously contested and unprecedented process through which the copyright of the great nationalist Tamil poet Subramania Bharati was “nationalized,” i.e., acquired by the state government, is here narrated in all its twists and turns. Such is the author’s erudition and so engaging is his style that this book reads like a suspense novel by an omniscient narrator. It also raises vital issues of direct relevance to authorship, authority, and the politics of ownership of art." - Harish Trivedi "Venkatachalapathy tells us, grippingly, how we the people of India have come to own the words of the master poet, writer Subramania Bharati. An intriguing story of literary vitality, nationalism and political will." - TM Krishna |
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