Dare to Dream: The Life of M.S. Oberoi

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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 biography, written with the cooperation of M.S. Oberoi, Bachi J. Karkaria describes and candid 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.

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About the Author

Bachi 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 Achievement.  She is the author of To a Grand Design, on the life and times of Calcutta's Grand Hotel. She has written a musical revue and adapted The Rummy Game, which was successfully staged in India, Europe, and Award for Lifetime the USA. She is married and lives with her two sons and a daughter-in-law. Cover photographs courtesy of The Oberoi Group.