Get book and read anywhere and anytime you want. We are not alone. Some call them devils or demons. But they are real. They are down there. And they are waiting for us to find them. In a cave in the Himalayas, a guide discovers a self-mutilated body with a warning: Satan exists. In the Kalahari Desert, a nun.
Prime minister of India Manmohan Singh has been accused of changing ministerial portfolios at the behest of the Reliance group. From internationally acclaimed New Face of Fiction author Padma Viswanathan, a stunning new work set among families of those who lost loved ones in the Air India bombing, registering the unexpected reverberations of this tragedy in the lives of its survivors. At a time, Air India had 13 chairmen in 20 years! This was done in a bid to ensure proper liaison with the ministry, but shifting of the decision-making panel from the commercial hub of the country adversely affected the functioning.
Promotions took place only on the basis of seniority. One person reached a post of higher responsibility only when he had only a few months to retire from service. Bhargava notes that the only exception to the rule happened when the CEO decided to promote his chronies.
The first was a period of professional leadership under JRD Tata as the Chairman, which lasted up to early s. And the last stage continues still, in which the company is going under. Acquisition of a large fleet of new aircraft when the airline was already in deep losses was a decision that smacks of managerial incompetence.
Even though the author has minutely examined the issues haunting Air India with inside knowledge, readers get a feeling that Bhargava makes his smart analysis with the benefit of hindsight and cherry-picking the examples.
Reading his tirades against V Thulasidas and Praful Patel, who were the managing director and minister of civil aviation respectively, one is led to think that personal vendetta might also be a factor behind the barrage of accusations as he was unceremoniously removed the HR department.
If the author is to be believed, the duo was behind the downfall of the organization. However, the author has played safe without attracting libel. Unfortunately in India, public sector is where everyone, including the CEO, criticizes the management for their own mistakes!
He failed to put forward any schemes that could be cited as alternatives. The airline began its free fall when the country was opened up for liberalization and the desi corporates were feeling the heat.
But this failed to wake up Air India. Apart from avoiding some flawed decisions like the mega purchase of aircraft, nobody could have saved the public sector undertaking from its eventual ruin.
The author pretends to have some original ideas, but fail to display any! The book identifies the tasks set before Air India if it wants to be in the field in future. The first and foremost priority is to obtain the services of an able leader who is not fettered by the whims and fancies of the politicians and also not blackmailed by the labour unions.
The book is written with great earnestness but the readability is mediocre. The layout of the page with unusually long spacing between paragraphs gives the appearance of a pamphlet in which the paragraphs stand out like articles in a constitution, at the cost of seeming like discontinuous ideas.
The book is painfully in need of an index to help the reader look up the persons and episodes narrated, in an easy way. In addition to these, readability suffers when the author resorts to verbatim reproductions of reports, suggestions made by him, statistical figures with dates and the like.
We see many numbered and bulleted lists in the text, which may increase the effectiveness of a business proposal but a discouragement to the general reader. The book is highly recommended. Sep 11, Deepak Yadav rated it really liked it. This book is a depressing read. The author critically examines the reasons behind the downfall of Air India. The subject becomes more relevant today because the Indian government is looking to sell Air India which might not be a bad idea after the momentous mismanagement.
Anybody who wants an insider account of what exactly went wrong with Air India should read this book. I'm not surprised to know that this book isn't available in hard copy. Less is more. Steve Jobs said it the best. But I believe, this author was on drugs when Jobs made that statement. Highly recommend all to read this book. It's quite repetitive, but very insightful.
Feb 24, Ranjeev Dubey rated it it was ok. Since everybody and their half wit uncles have written for decades in print media on what ails Air India, I wouldn't ordinarily have invested time on this topic.
Still, as Wendy Doniger's royalty statement will no doubt reveal in a few months, nothing works like banning a book, or withdrawing it or pulping it So what do we have here?
We have a story most well read people already know from the newspapers and magazines. We have a story told in reasonably readable lan Since everybody and their half wit uncles have written for decades in print media on what ails Air India, I wouldn't ordinarily have invested time on this topic.
We have a story told in reasonably readable language for which we should be grateful: clearly, all those years in bureaucracy have not obliterated a natural talent at writing though it has subdued it a bit!
Finally, we have a lot of management mantras of the type you can read in a low priced MBA correspondence course or as taught by a third rate management school in a mufassil town run by a fourth rate politician making a real estate or money laundering play in the form of an educational institution. Either ways, I didn't come away learning anything I didn't already know. Note, I am not from the aviation world so if you read your newspapers, your experience may be no different.
Having said all these things, I will say this: it still takes courage to write a book like this so if nothing else, we should buy a copy if only for the royalty it brings the author and gift it to someone. Jun 28, Pankaj rated it it was amazing. I greatly appreciate the Author's courage to bring forth to the readers the insights that he saw in Air India, a number of faulty decisions that the Management took many on instructions from Ministry of Civil Aviation, then headed by Praful Patel.
The book describes the disastrous role the interference of the Ministry has played, in the downfall of the Airline that was once a Jewel in the crown of India. I feel the book could have been edited properly to make it more interesting, many a times I greatly appreciate the Author's courage to bring forth to the readers the insights that he saw in Air India, a number of faulty decisions that the Management took many on instructions from Ministry of Civil Aviation, then headed by Praful Patel.
I feel the book could have been edited properly to make it more interesting, many a times it feels repetetive, but i strongly vouch for more such books which will educate the layman and also can be used a case studies in management institutes, because its equally important to know what not to do.
View 1 comment. Mar 05, Sukumar Honkote rated it really liked it. The book reads quite a lot like a history textbook with, chronological and time accuracies. It was easy to put and pick up. Language adeptness of the author is quite average. Now about the content. I was forever interested in the causes of AI being a black hole for taxpayers money. I do not think I can ever travel AI without excerpts continuously being remembered. I believe I would be angry throughout the journey. AI is a perfect example how unions, government manhandling and ineffective management can destroy a company.
It presents a very likely future, a future we must prevent. An important read for an Indian Mar 05, Neelakantan K. A decent book. Everyone knew that Air India has been mismanaged into the ground, but the specifics were still interesting. Bhargava's solutions are generic "get professional management" statements, but that is what the airline needs. Two Sikh newspaper publishers who overheard an alleged confession by one of the bombers were assassinated. Other potential witnesses were threatened and intimidated.
Journalists who wrote about the suspects were targeted by death threats and harassment. The suspects founded charities and participated in political parties, attending fundraising dinners for premiers and prime ministers. And the families of the victims fought to be recognized for their unimaginable loss as the result of an act of terrorism plotted in Canada. When charges were finally laid against three Sikh separatists, the families believed justice was almost theirs.
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