One and half: A lighthearted look at Bangalore through the years

If your life is a dosa “One and Half” is your benne masala- Kavan Kuttappa Naru Noodle bar“The hilarious ravings of an old-Bangalore boy about a way of life that’s almost extinct”- Varun Thomas Mathew The Black Dwarves of the Good Little BayTo understand the Bengaluru that is one needs to vibe with the Bangalore that came before - the Bangalore where traffic was light Indiranagar was a nondescript suburb and Whitefield was a picnic spot. This charming humorous and deeply nostalgic trip into Bangalore of the 90s is a great way to do just that.- Sidu Ponnappa EntrepreneurImagine if you will a Sunday morning in a leafy part of Bangalore. The breeze hits you as you walk out of the door. You make your way to the neighbourhood Darshini where you order a Masala Dosa and a filter coffee. You ignore the chatter around you as you bend down close your eyes and take a whiff of the benne melting into your dosa. If there was a book to evoke the same feeling it would be ‘One and Half.’It’s a light hearted jaunt through three decades in Bangalore as it’s morphed from a pensioner’s paradise to having the population of a small country at Silkboard signal. This book shows how eccentric family friends and fellow citizens can give you the best snapshot of a place and time. Part memoir and part Sambhar One and Half is an attempt to give an increasingly serious urban India something it desperately needs: something to chuckle about.