We are privileged to have him post on this site. Most of you probably don’t 
know who he is or who his father was, so here’s some Wiki information.

Dilip D'Souza was born to Neela, a former Indian Administrative Service officer 
and Maharashtra Chief Secretary and activist J.B. D'Souza.[3][4][5] D'Souza did 
a BE in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from BITS Pilani (1976–81) and 
an MS in Computer Science from Brown University(1984).[6]

He married French language teacher Vibha Kamat in 1993, and they have two 
children, son Sahir, born 1999 and daughter Surabhi, born 2004.[7] He studied 
and worked as a software engineer in United States from 1981 to 1992 when he 
returned to India to write full-time.[8] He speaks Tamil, Hindi, Marathi, 
Konkani, English, French and Spanish.

As an alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, he is dedicated to 
alumni activities and has come over many times to his alma mater. He was there 
in February 2010 to promote his new book Roadrunner.[9] He is currently on the 
editorial board of the BITS Alumni magazine Sandpaper.[10] D'Souza also 
maintains a blog "Death Ends Fun".[11]

About J. B (Bain) D’Souza

The visionary creator of CIDCO New Bombay and his many other top positions in 
the public life of Bombay City and of Maharastra State. A man so simple and 
unassuming that the Guardian of London felt it necessary to write about him on 
his death.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/oct/08/guardianobituaries.india

Roland.
Toronto.


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