Bajanaama
A chance browsing of junk in a kabadi shop two decades ago turned a casual music lover Amar Nath Sharma into a keen researcher and archivist of the history of sound recording. Incidentally, he is a Commissioner in the Customs & Central Excise department. His work Bajanaama (A Study of Early Indian Gramophone Records) is a happy read and an illustrated digest of the music scene in India in the first quarter of the last century. The book documents the history of phonographic recordings of Hindustani music. A veritable treasure of interesting insights, Bajanaama is a milestone in the discography of Indian records and brings to light little known facts and photographs of rare records and forgotten artists.
[Baja is a generic name for all musical instruments. Naama (namah) is a Persian word that loosely means story and biography.]
The book is being released today evening at Akashwani Bhavan, Mumbai.
DDT wishes him success in his endeavours.