C 47-year-old Rakesh Shukla is a talented software engineer and CEO of a successful tech company. But among India's animal lovers he is known as " The Dog Father", an outstanding man who founded the country's most advanced dog rescue center and who personall y takes care of 735 stray( 流浪的 ) and abandoned dogs that nobody else wants. 12 years ago, Rakesh and his wife founded a tech company which quickly became successful, but he still didn't feel happy and satisfied. It wasn’t until 2009, when Kavya, a beautiful dog, came into his life that he truly felt that his life had meaning. Three months later, he got a second dog, this time a stray called Lucky. Over the next few weeks. whenever Rakesh saw a stray or an abandoned dog, he just brought it home. The number grew quickly. In 2011, he founded the Voice of Stray Dogs, a dog rescue organization working to support the strays of Bangalore. Today, it is the world’s largest citywide dog rescue center. He kept adopting stray and abandoned dogs, and by2012 he had 735 dogs in his care In 2015, Rakesh Shukla estimated that in the past three years he had spent over $1million of his own money to rescue over 5, 000 stray dogs in Bangalore, not to mention taking care of the hundreds that lived at his shelter permanently. Facing a series of problems while providing the city a free service, he decided to change his approach and decided that people who need a dog rescued have to pay a 2, 500 rupee ($37) fee. Rakesh Shukla is viewed by many as a hero, and a human champion of stray and abandoned dogs in Bangalore.