Book: Tree Bears Witness Author: Sharath Komarraju Publisher: Westland: Pages: 241 Price: Rs 350īarely a month has passed since the royal wedding of Emperor Akbar to the legendary Jodha, when the new queen’s brother, Sujjamal, is found murdered in the palace gardens. In “The Bhais of Bengaluru”, Jyoti Shelar, a print journalist with a decade of experience as a field reporter, explores this mysterious and fascinating underbelly of India’s Garden City.Ģ. Kodigehalli Mune Gowda was crowned the city’s first “don” back in the 1960s, but it was in the 1980s and the 1990s that powerhouses like Muthappa Rai, Sreedhar, “Boot House” Kumar aka Oil Kumar, Bekkina Kannu Rajendra and Srirampura Kitty emerged. Book: The Bhais of Bengaluru Author: Jyoti Shelar Publisher: Penguin: Pages: 226 Price: Rs 299įor years, Bengaluru’s underworld has been ruled by shrewd and notorious dons, who grew from small-time extortionists to dreaded names in real-estate circles. The IANS bookshelf has a good variety for its readers this weekend.ġ. New Delhi–Explore the story of Bengaluru’s underworld that has been ruled by shrewd and notorious dons read about the Mughal emporer Akbar and his beloved Jodha in a tale abuzz with political intrigue, personal enmities and hidden rivalry flick through the story of a boy who has had the best of his days in his undergrad years as the heartthrob of college until he falls for someone and plunge into a mad adventure around a terror attack at an orphanage.