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He was brought up with stories from Hindu legend and the great epics and classics of both India and the West. Being a passionate student of history at school times, Ram Sivasankaran built keen interest in stories of valor, heroism, chivalry, beauty and romance. Download Link: The Peshwa: The Lion And the Stallion Pdf ebook. Jan 16, · War of the Deceivers by Ram Sivasankaran is the second book in the The Peshwa series on the Bajirao Peshwa. The first being The Lion and The Stallion. I haven’t read the first part, it is high on my TBR now, but the second one is an outstanding read. Characters Bajirao Peshwa. Dec 09, · Ram Sivasankaran was born in Madras, India, but has spent most of his life abroad largely in the Middle East and the United States of America. He was brought up with stories from Hindu legend and the great epics and classics of both India and the West.
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By transitionofthoughts. On December 9, In Interviews. He was brought up with stories from Hindu legend and the great epics and classics of both India and the West. In addition to being a passionate student of history in school, Ram built keen interest in stories of valor, heroism, chivalry, beauty and romance. A day-dreamer of sorts, Ram believes deeply in the power of imagination — the mind being the canvas on which even the seemingly talent-less can create new universes, resurrect eras long gone, bring the gods to life and even resurrect heroes and damsels of yore.
As such, Ram makes his debut with a historical novel on one of the greatest and yet, to an extent, less-known warrior from Indian history — Bajirao Bhat, Peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy. Many have encouraged me to write in a form that ups the scale of both words communicated and audience reached so I decided to give professional writing a try. The earliest though when I fell in love with writing and recognized any innate ability to do so was in third grade, when my teacher appreciated me for a little story of Winnie the Pooh I had written in the form of a couple of paragraphs.
What were the challenges you faced? Ram: The first thing I did was to pick a protagonist I looked up to, perhaps even empathized with.
Bajirao was a fierce and mighty young warrior, invincible in battle and one who made dazzling contributions to the Maratha Empire and the establishment of Hindu Saamraajya over the subcontinent after almost a the peshwa ram shivasankaran free pdf download since the first Islamic invasions. However, he was also a man well ahead of his times, for he took a Muslim wife, Mastani, and broke traditional orthodoxies of Brahmins traditionally staying within priesthood.
He was also truly one with his men and odes to him tell us that those he commanded would follow him into the jaws of death itself like brothers. I felt such a warrior was so underplayed in our history textbooks that it was the peshwa ram shivasankaran free pdf download shameful. I start off by creating a timeline of important events and characters. After this, I spend hours dreaming up the scene of every chapter in my head and put it down in words in the most powerful yet simplest way I can.
One has to, however, the peshwa ram shivasankaran free pdf download, ensure that the fictitious elements stay true to the spirit of the tall personalities being described, even if one takes as many artistic liberties as I did.
Of course, the peshwa ram shivasankaran free pdf download, the final step is repeated edits with my agents and editors. Thankfully, I did not face any major challenges in my road to publication. I am very lucky and grateful to have found an agent and publisher who give me the artistic liberty to do what I want while taking up the burden of everything else, such as marketing and other logistics.
Was yours a conscious attempt to target this genre? Or were you always interested to write on history? It was an attempt to write on something I knew I was truly interested in. The popularity of the genre just happens to be a coincidence. I will say though that I have made an entrance here, however small, and that I intend to stay here and make conquests, one at a time. I will not rule out expanding to other genres though, as I have a couple more on my mind, worth exploring.
How difficult and time consuming was your research for the book? Ram: I visited historical sites associated with the Maratha Empire such as Tanjavur and Pune and learned more about the patronage of the most popular rulers, such as Bajirao, associated with these places and what contributions they made towards temples, their subjects and towards the building of a military force worthy of reasonable strength.
I talked to guides and to locals knowledgeable of that history. It is remarkable to see how many Marathi families have stayed on in Tanjavur over hundreds of years and speak Tamil just as well as Marathi.
Next, I caught hold of and read as many academic and encyclopedia-based sources as I could the peshwa ram shivasankaran free pdf download understand important people, places and events from history. I also delved into many artistic depictions of Maratha heroes such as Shivaji and Bajirao through TV serials and less-known comic books to get a sense of almost legendary respect they command in the eyes of the general public.
Although my work deviates quite a bit from actual history, I can assure you my research was anything but half-baked, the peshwa ram shivasankaran free pdf download.
So, it was more an errand of pleasure and interest than one of professional need. When we have history textbooks masquerading dubious things like the Aryan Invasion Theory as fact, I have no qualms about writing fiction when I mention it to be explicitly so. I cannot win over everyone given the magnitude of my exaggerations and omissions but that is not something I am afraid of. On the other hand, I have to put empty criticism and personal attacks into the other bucket.
It is very important, according to me, to dream out every chapter you intend to pen down, right from the setting to the dialogue. When I find the time to, I work out at the gym and when I do that, I dream.
Once I have enough to start putting down a chapter, I get on it immediately lest my ideas and thoughts dissipate. Then of course, the peshwa ram shivasankaran free pdf download, there is the whole need to not only have a the peshwa ram shivasankaran free pdf download story but also to tell it well, so there will have to the peshwa ram shivasankaran free pdf download repeated read-throughs and edits. I follow no scheduled quota of writing. If yes, how do you tackle it? Ram: All the time!
It becomes particularly difficult when your writing rhythm is broken for days if not weeks by a day job. The way I get around it is to refresh my own memory with respect to the story I have written down thus far so that I, in a sense, motivate myself to write with my own writing, the peshwa ram shivasankaran free pdf download. Ram: I am more a fan of the classics than contemporary novels. The man had remarkable imagination.
Ram: As you rightly pointed out in the beginning, there is a kind of fanaticism towards genres such as romance and remastered mythology. Personally, I feel the literary scene in India is more populist than intellectually meaningful in many ways and that is something we as a society should be open about transcending from.
Having written a novel with populist undertones in itself, I cannot say too many bad things about it but I must stress on the importance of people reading more books with a good combination of intellectual and artistic authority. Ram: It is honestly something I am still figuring out. I dedicate hours for my day job and more for my work and do not let anything else interfere with me when I am involved in either. It may not be a set schedule but it has worked for me.
There are a couple of more projects in the pipeline that I can ask you to expect with the very rudimentary assurance that I am here to stay and you will hear a lot more about me in the future. I will strive to be better and live up to your constructive criticism. Ram: My mantra to folks who wish to write is — dream well, build an interesting plot around your dream and tell the story well and keep things simple yet classy.
Miss out on any one of these and you will have a mediocre work not worth much even if published. Thanks Ram for the lovely interview. A very interesting interview of the author of Peshwa. I found your questions very interesting too Aseem.
Dream well seems to be a great advice from the writer. Transition of Thoughts Weaving thoughts into words. Like this: Like Loading Previous word story: Lunching in luxury. Healthwealthbridge by Dr. Amrita Basu. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Proud to be an Indiblogger aseemrastogi2.
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Dec 15, · It was a long ago when we bought this book The Peshwa: The Lion and The Stallion by Ram Sivasankaran during a fantastic promotion. It somehow took a backseat in the queue and was ignored for a remarkable amount of time. No due to negligence, Author: Ram Sivasankaran. Now you have Author Ram Sivasankaran who makes his debut with yet another version of Peshwa Bajirao. I loved the bright and eye catching cover of the book as soon as I saw it, and was curious to find out how Sivasankaran would interpret this hero of the 18th Century Maratha Confederacy. Photograph of the Peshwa's Palace in Pune (Poona) - , Maharashtra, by an unknown photographer, from an album of 40 prints taken in the s. In the centre of the old city of Pune, the imposing walls of the Shaniwarwada palace is all that is left of the royal residence of the Peshwas.
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