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The Book
It is 2020. Bangalore is dead.

Yash Deshpande, a 22 year old NRI, returns to Bangalore to seek answers to the secrets behind his father’s sudden death. Sid Deshpande, his father, a dynamic man with great morals had always been Yash’s role model and his super hero.

Sid was a successful software entrepreneur who set up his company in Bangalore in 2004 before moving to the Bay Area in 2015.

Yash gets a glimpse into his father’s struggles and how he managed to set up a successful company when he comes across his father’s digital diary. The past and the present are juxtaposed and Yash slowly begins to unravel the mystery behind his father’s death. What he discovers will change him, and force him to see the city he couldn’t wait to leave, with new eyes.

He gets Bangalored.

The Author
Sanjay Koppikar is a Bangalore based entrepreneur, author and a Rotarian. Sanjay has nearly 25 years of experience in different areas of IT industry, with over 20 years as an entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Quadwave, a software services company based out of Bangalore.[]

He started his career as an 18 year old in IT industry from Dharwad, Karnataka before moving down to Bangalore. He is an executive alumni of IIM Bangalore. He stays in Bangalore with his wife, Varsha and son, Yash.

Bangalored is his first novel.

Excerpt
The video begins and the camera pans across a sea of young and eager faces. It pauses at the stage where the announcer requests Sid to come up. There’s loud applause as Sid walks across to the announcer towards the podium holding on to some papers, presumably his speech. He has a restrained but slightly proud smile on his face as he begins his key note address.

‘I had a dream,’ he begins and a hush falls over the auditorium as every audience member is straining to listen to him. ‘And this city helped me realize it!’ There is a smattering of applause from the proud Bangaloreans in the audience. Sid smiles, aware that he has their attention.

Why Buy from Us?
Buying this book is a small step to ensure that we take part in improving the standard of the society we live in.Barring expenses, the entire money collected through sales of this book shall be donated to WARDS and the Community Service projects of Rotary Bangalore Indiranagar.

WARDS is an organization for non-profit providing support to individuals suffering from autism, cerebral palsy, multiple disabilities and mental retardation. It is run by Mr.Kathavarayan for the last 25 years. Being visually challenged from a very young age has never deterred him from being a great visionary and he has helped change the lives of many young children.

When you buy from us directly, there are fewer costs that cut into the amount that WARDS and Rotary Bangalore Indiranagar will receive eventually. Think about it. If you’re interested, you can send us an email to bebangalored@gmail.com. We will reply to you with our account details and send you a copy of the book directly.

Be Bangalored!
We have all been beneficiaries of the great Bangalore story. The meteoric rise of Indian IT & ITES industry became synonymous with Bangalore. The city grew beyond everyone’s imagination, but the administration and government never caught up. Every apartment, every house opting not to re-harvest rain water or conserve or refill ground water is contributing for water-less days ahead. There are a few villages around Bangalore where apparently you may get beaten up if they get to know you are from Bangalore! That’s just because they are at the receiving end of all that garbage.

Bangalore’s traffic woes are never ending and while land grabbing and greed has been at its peak in India as a whole, it’s grown to the extent that almost 75 to 80% of contestants for elections in 2013 were builders!

Is all lost ?

Thankfully - no!

We don’t need a Batman to save our city - there are hundreds of “Harvey Dents” working to save it already!