Interview Summary (00:00:00) Early Life and Education V. Santharam was born in Cochin but moved to Chennai at the age of nine, where he spent much of his childhood. He became interested in birds through a relative of his who used to frequently take him bird watching in Chennai. Santharam remembered visiting the Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary in the 1970s. He continued these bird watching expeditions when he visited Kerala too, he said. He had never seriously considered pursuing Bird Studies as a...