I am delighted to invite you to the following events around ‘Connect the Dots’, in Bangalore

1) Date: Friday 14th May
    Time: 5-630 pm
    Venue: Infosys campus bookstore

Event open to all Infy employees

2) Date: Saturday 15th May
    Time: 3-430 pm
    Venue: Strand Book store

Event open to all.

Both events will essentially be ‘meet the author’ + interact with some of the entrepreneurs from the book (names to be confirmed by this evening)

Strand Book Store (address & directions)
1st floor, South Block
Manipal Centre, Dickenson Rd,
Bangalore – 42. 
Ph nos: 30577661-3

Strand book store route map

Why Strand?
I had a choice of other stores, of course, to hold this event. But when Vidya Virkar emailed me and introduced herself as the daughter of T N Shanbag, the owner of the legendary Strand Book Stall in Mumbai – I could not help but say ‘yes’.

As someone who grew up in Colaba, I spent some happy afternoons in that tiny store, agonising  over ‘what to buy’. Not that books were bought too often – libararies ruled reading habits!

Mr Shanbag was an amazing man, an entrepreneur before the word ‘entrepreneurship’ came into vogue. He passed away last year, but Strand lives on. The books business is now a big one, but size is not everything. In its passion for books, Strand remains a giant.

So do come to Strand this Saturday. Some of you wondered if there would be enough space. Vidya assures me that won’t be an issue. The entire floor will be cleared up and we would have 100+ capacity.

In case you guys are game we can all hop over for a coffee after the event. Sort of a tweetup/ meetup – whatever you want to call it!

Will update on events in Mumbai & Pune in the next post.

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