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Vikram Sampath is an Indian popular historian and columnist, who is noted for writing biographies of Gauhar Jaan, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and Mysore Kings. He is Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Eisenhower and Aspen Global Fellow and Senior Research Fellow of Prime Ministers' Museum and Library Society. He is also a columnist for The Print. He is also the founder of the Bangalore Literature Festival. Sampath was born in Karnataka.