Rakesh Shukla

The man who looks after 735 dogs: Meet Rakesh Shukla: From a techie to being Bengaluru's dog rescuer.

"I'm the last stop for these dogs. They are no longer cute and cuddly. Many are sick and no longer wanted," said Mr Shukla, 45.

Affectionately known as the "Dog Father", he calls the dogs his babies and him their "papa".

Rakesh Shukla: Tech-Entrepreneur, Dog Man, Philanthropist.

Rakesh Shukla has always been slightly ahead of the curve. Ten years ago, he founded and ran a technology content company well before the word “content” was widely understood. TWB, now TWB_, was the home of technology, business and learning content for dozens of Fortune 500 companies around the world including Microsoft, Oracle, Lenovo, SAP, Pratt & Whitney, Honeywell, Bombardier, HSBC, ANZ, and AXA. Five years later, he segued into animal welfare, founding and running the world’s largest stray dog rescue service, and one-of-a-kind dog sanctuary. The Voice of Stray Dogs, or VOSD, is quite unique in its scale, approach, and leverage of technology. Its uniqueness has led Rakesh to be featured on the BBC, CNN, Al-Jazeera, CNN-IBN, NDTV, India’s national dailies, and at TEDx Mumbai.

Rakesh is an electronics engineer and MBA by training. He has worked at Wipro, Sasken, Aricent, and Amdocs in India, US, and Asia before starting TWB in 2006, and VOSD in 2012. He's taught at his MBA Alma Mater for his love of teaching. He has authored several technical and management papers. He has served & resigned from the Animal Welfare Board of India. Rakesh is based in Bangalore, where he spends half his week in the city with 14 dogs, and the other half at his farm, aka the VOSD Dog Sanctuary, on the outskirts of Bangalore with another 750. Rakesh’s journey has been the subject of more than a hundred talks, telecasts, documentaries, and interviews.

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When Rakesh Shukla founded tech firm TWB to create content and outsource technical communication to the likes of Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and NetApp nine years ago, little did he realise that three years later it would assume an alterego rescuing and rehabilitating abandoned dogs and strays. 

"It all started in June 2009 when I bought Kavya, a Golden Retriever," Shukla told ET. "I had never owned a dog before that. I felt like I had become a father and wanted to take my responsibility seri .. 

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