

<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;" lang="EN-US">Product Description</span></b></p>

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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US">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. </span></p>

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guaranteed with used items.</span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;" lang="EN-US">About the Author</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
107%;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;" lang="EN-US">Bachi J. Karkaria</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US"> 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 &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. She is a popular columnist, an
authority on urbanization and AIDS, and recipient of the international Mary
Morgan-Hewitt Achievement.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>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<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>and a
daughter-in-law. Cover photographs courtesy of The Oberoi Group.</span></p>

