chennai a radio biography of veteran music composer m s viswanathan was released in audio cd format by prasar bharti archives on wednesday along with archival recordings of other notable yesteryear doyens veena maestro emani sankara sastry carnatic vocalist tanjore s kalyanaraman and orator thenkachi ko swaminathan who also served as assistant station director in all india radio while recordings of m s viswanathan emani sankara sastry and tanjore kalyanaraman were released as a set of three cds indru oru thagaval thenkachi swaminathans 200 recordings of over 4 minutes each were released in two parts film producer avm saravanan fondly remembered swaminathans humourlaced messages commentary and punch lines from his celebrated 5minute show on air indru oru thagaval which ran every morning for almost 14 years i would listen to him every morning on way to my grandsons school and later during the day translate it for him in english it was almost as though i heard the show twice he said m s viswanathans daughter madhu ashok who received his cd reminisced how air acted as the bridge between her and her father when he was travelling and kept her abreast of all his work bhushany kalyanaraman who was both s kalyanaramans wife and disciple fondly remembered how he diligently strove to pass on his knowledge to the future generation and thanked him for creating an artist out of heremani sankara sastrys granddaughter emani keeravani received the cd of his recordings the cds were released by e gayatri vice chancellor tamil nadu music and fine arts university whose connection to air dates back to her mother kamala aswathama who was a veena artiste for air she also spoke fervently of emani sankara sastrys work and how much it had inspired her own craft as a veena player my mother had performed many of his compositions for airs orchestra vadya vrinda which i hope could be revived she said chief guest suresh chandra panda ias member personnel prasar bharti lauded the agencys efforts to digitise decades worth of archives concisely and promised to bring to the fore many more works in the 1980s and 90s we recorded the ramcharitmanas in bhopal and its now available in the form of cds and dvds we have 4 lakh hours of archives in doordarshan and air to make it available to the public is a gigantic step he said