Sudipto Das
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Sudipto Das in 2014
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| Born | 12 July 1973 |
| Occupation | Author, Musician, Columnist, Co Founder |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | IIT Kharagpur |
| Notable works | The Ekkos Clan, Music of Schweyk in the Second World War |
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Sudipto Das (born 12 July 1973) is the author of the novel The Ekkos Clan, released in July 2013 by Niyogi Books and the coffee table book Myths & Truths Behind The Ekkos Clan, released in April 2014. Within a fortnight of its release The Ekkos Clan came to 3rd position in the best seller list in Flipkart in the Literature and Fiction section. Sudipto, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, a columnist, a speaker at TED events and a musician too, is a veteran in the Semiconductor Industry and takes deep interest in Internet Of Things. The Co-founder of Mindlance Technologies, he has also been a secretary at the Sarathi Socio Cultural Trust for many years, looking after their cultural initiatives in Bangalore.
Sudipto was born in Calcutta to a family which fled Bangladesh during the partition riots of 1947. He grew up listening to horrid stories of the partition, something which he has used extensively in his debut novel The Ekkos Clan. He completed his engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1996. Having started his professional career in 1996 at Noida, he moved to Bangalore in 1997. He has been living in Bangalore ever since. A violinist, trained in Western classical music, Sudipto started writing short stories and poems in Bengali and English while he was in IIT Kharagpur, where he also served as the Governor of Technology Music Society, Eastern (ETMS) in 1995–96.
Sudipto started the music band Kohal in Bangalore in 2007 with some of the members of ETMS. In May 2014 he tried his hand at creating background scores for a play, directed by Sharmin Ali, where he used only Mozart's compositions for the entire score. In 2014 he recreated Eastern European melodies of the 1940s for the Forum Three War Musical Schweyk in the Second World War by Bertolt Brecht, which was staged many times in Bangalore and once in Auroville for an international audience.
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