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Vidyadhar Durgekar is an author and a poet with four published books and a few articles in national and international magazines. He is a native of Karwar, a beautiful town on the west coast, in the district of Uttar Kannada, Karnataka, India. After graduating in engineering from Bangalore University started his career in Indian Coast Guard as an Officer. Sailed the blue ocean for more than a decade and then hanging his boots, joined Corporates in India and abroad before settling in Bangalore working for a multinational company. During these adventures at sea and shore, he found himself in the world of words.

Early Life and Education
He was born in a small village Aligadde near Karwar, Uttara Kannada district a coastal town of Karnataka on the west coast of India. He did his initial schooling from the village and joined Hindu High Scool for one year and then moved to St Josephs High School to complete his schooling. After his two years in government college Karwar, joined BMSCE Bangalore to complete his graduation in Mechanical Engineering. His village Aligadde was acquired for a Seabird Indian Naval defense project. Affected by the plight of the land losers he wrote his first novel.

Career
After completing his graduation he joined the Indian Coast Guard and served for almost a decade before hanging his boots to join the Corporate sector. He joined Teksid Kalyani and moved to Tekisd spa, Torino. Came back and headed a foundry in Goa. After that joined New Mangalore Port Trust and Ennore Port Ltd. As an HSE professional, he wrote few papers on the HSE for the project and went on to publish poems on the environment in poetry magazines. Then joined DNVGL of Norway in Bengaluru as a systems auditor. Audited many a Corporates in India and abroad. Left DNVGL in 2018.

Authored Books
Sale of souls is a novel based on the subject of sustainable development with the backdrop of the land acquisition. This novel was inspired when the author lost his own lands for a government development project and also participated in the process of land acquisition for another government project. Being a Health Safety & environment professional the conflict of the development, environment and the poverty has been perfectly discussed in the book for the reader to understand the situation better.

Cricket is my religion and Sachin our God is the second novel based on the sensitive theme of sports and religion. A humorous narrative with the funny Cricket games ending in a highly sensitive subject of religion and its conflicts. The sensitive subject was deftly handled, with sports humor to convey the message of belief and superstitious faith.

I Also want to fall in love is a simple romantic novel about the two youngsters falling in love in a college campus and then struggling to hold on against all the odds and challenges of the family and society.

Beyond wild blue yonder A collection of poems on social themes, romanticism and philosophies. Initially started as a hobby on www.poemhunter.com became a serious writing activity after the encouragement received online and finally compiled to make this book.