Books & Life Entropy | 06 Feb 2010
SimplyFly
All that matters is Love & Work.- Freud
I usually refrain from reading books about alleged business Management and autobiographies of success stories. Most of them are self styled, self congratulatory, recipe manuals packaged with toxic doses of marketing.
Nevertheless, instinctively I bought Simply Fly -A Deccan Odyssey by Captain Gopinath which is refreshing, unpretentious, candid and animated story of his life. He writes with amazing candor and grace, without preaching any heroics, management/ leadership Mantras & sermons. The narratives have R.K.Narayan- like simplicity and ease. This is a story needs to reach every concerned Indian, especially the youth..
This is the journey of a boy born in a remote village, who went from riding a bullock cart to owning an airline, a journey of an entrepreneur who built India’s first and largest low-cost airline. Filled with rich anecdotes of everyday struggles and joys, this is the awe-inspiring story of Captain G.R. Gopinath.
This autobiography narrates in gritty detail Captain Gopinath’s incredible journey: quitting the Indian Army in the late 1970s with a princely gratuity of Rs 6500, going back to his farm land inundated by the river, converting a piece of barren land to set up a farm for ecologically sustainable silkworm rearing, winning the Rolex award for it, his loves and passions, his extraordinary determination to launch an airline, in the process rewriting aviation history.