01384nam a22001937a 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020002200062028005800084040002400142082002100166100001800187245003300205260004300238300000800281520086600289650001401155650002101169OSt20181127160414.0181127b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a978-93-5029-155-9  bAllied Informatics, Jaipurc5606d13/11/2018q2018-19  aBSDUbEnglishcBSDU  a387.7120954bGOP  aGopinath, G R  aSimply Fly: A Deccan Odyssey  aNoidabHarper Collins Publishersc2018  a380  aThis 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 (which touched a crazy market cap of US$ 1.1 billion in less than four years ), in the process rewriting aviation history.  aEconomics  aEntrepreneurship