Dare to Dream (Paperback)  | Released: 14 Oct 2000

Born in a small village in Punjab at the turn of the century, Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi began his career in the hotel industry on a fifty-rupee-a-month wage at Simla???s 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 twenty-eight hotels and four luxury Nile cruisers, 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 details how a major business is established, operated and maintained at the top. About The AuthorBachi J. Karkaria is National Metro Editor of the Times of India and among India???s leading journalists. She is the first Indian on the Board of the World Editors Forum, and is also on the Board of the India AIDS Initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She is a popular columnist, an authority on urbanization and AIDS, and recipient of the international Mary Morgan-Hewitt Award for Lifetime Achievement. She is the author of To a Grand Design, on the life and times of Calcutta???s Grand Hotel. A selection of her articles and columns has been compiled in two collections, Erratica and Your Flip Is Showing. She has written a musical revue and adapted The Rummy Game, which was successfully staged in India, Europe and the USA. She is married, and lives with her two sons and a daughter-in-law.