Vaibhav Purandare is the author of the acclaimed Savarkar: The True Story of the Father of Hindutva, Hitler and India: The Untold Story of His Hatred for the Country and Its People, Sachin Tendulkar: A Definitive Biography and Bal Thackeray & the Rise of the Shiv Sena. He works as a senior editor with The Times of India.
The session welcomed guest speaker Mr Vaibhav Purandare who is a renowned historian. The Vaibhav while giving his views about the current information on Shivaji Maharaj, said it to be outdated or not completely true. He sighted instances during the reign of Shivaji Maharaj about the war that Tanaji Malusare won the Kondana Fort & then was named Sinhgad. He also shared that there were many aspects of Shivaji Maharaj that got entangled that we need to look at facts by referring to the original documents of the 18th Century very much belonged to the Marathas. The speaker shared an interesting fact that the first person to write a biography on Shivaji Maharaj was a Persian in 1675. Overall the discussion unfolded several facts about Shivaji Maharaj making the session very interesting.