Dare to Dream: A Life of Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi

Bachi J. Karkariya

ISBN 10: 0140170545 / ISBN 13: 9780140170542

Published by Penguin, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dare to Dream: A Life of Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140170545
• ISBN 13: 9780140170542
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 300 grams

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Synopsis

M. S. Oberoi with his son P. R. S. Oberoi Born in a small Punjab village at the turn of the century, Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi began his career in the industry on a fifty-rupee-a-month wage at Simlas Cecil Hotel. But he was not destined to remain in his lowly position for long. With a combination of clear-sighted thinking, frugality and sheer hard work, he managed to put together a plan and the finances necessary to acquire his first hotel: Clarkes. That was only the beginning... Decades later, The Oberoi Group has thirty hotels, girdles the globe, and is acknowledged as a standard setter. In this well-researched and candid biography, written with the cooperation of M.S. Oberoi, Bachi J. Karkaria describes how a man of modest beginnings became the head of an internationally celebrated hotel chain, and shows how a major business is built up, run and kept at the top.

About the Author

Bachi J. Karkaria graduated from Calcutta University with an Honours degree in English literature and later attended a course in advanced journalism at the Thompson Foundation, Cardiff, UK. She began her career in journalism as a trainee with the Times of India Group, and, in 1980, became the first woman assistant editor of The Statesman. In 1988, she rejoined the Times Group as senior editor of The Times of India and was given charge of Saturday Times and Sunday Review, in addition, she writes a popular column on social mores as well as feature articles on civil aviation, urban issues, and public health (especially AIDS). Bachi J. Karkaria has written a book on the life and times of Calcuttas Grand Hotel and co-authored one on Mother Teresa. She is married and has two sons.