Kingfizzer

Author : Kingshuk Nag
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789352642885

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Kingfizzer by Kingshuk Nag Pdf

He was once the King of Good Times - known for his opulent lifestyle, calendar shoots with bikini-clad models, high stakes in an IPL team, and an airline that was the last word in luxury. But the global downturn in aviation and the rising fuel prices worsened Kingfisher's financial ill health. The several thousands of crores loaned to it by a consortium of banks proved insufficient to arrest the slide in its fortunes. By early 2013, the high-flying airline shut shop and closed the doors on disgruntled employees and investors - none of which, though, made any dent in Mallya's own lifestyle as he had pilfered cash from the company and stashed it abroad. Facing charges of money laundering, misappropriation and being a wilful defaulter, Mallya left the country in 2016 for his country estate near London. Kingfizzer: The Mallya Story is the tale of how the king lost his cheer and high spirits, to be remembered for one of the biggest corporate collapses of our time.

Author : K Giriprakash
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789351186229

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The Vijay Mallya Story by K Giriprakash Pdf

The Vijay Mallya Story is an extraordinarily detailed and lively chronicle of the life of one of India’s most celebrated and reviled businessmen—Vijay Mallya. His extraordinary career spans three decades and is spread across multiple industries. The book covers Mallya’s childhood, his relationship with his father and his inherent deal making abilities. It tracks his meteoric rise with Kingfisher and how the airline led to his downfall. K. Giriprakash has closely followed Vijay Mallya’s career over the last two decades which gives him a unique vantage point to draw an extraordinary portrait of a man whom everyone is fascinated by but not many know.

Author : Kingshuk Nag
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : China
ISBN : 939054758X

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A New Silk Road by Kingshuk Nag Pdf

Author : Kingshuk Nag
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789350292563

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The Double Life Of Ramalinga Raju by Kingshuk Nag Pdf

How an IT czar ran a $ 2 billion company to the ground .The story of the rise and fall of Ramalinga Raju, promoter of the blue-chip software company Satyam, has no parallel in Indian corporate history. He created a $ 2 billion company in a short period of time, only to leave it penniless. At the heart of the scandal lay the IT barons craving for land (his familys traditional business). To satisfy it, Raju pawned his shareholding in Satyam as well as in his real estate company, Maytas Infra, and allegedly siphoned off funds from both companies. In an elaborate cover-up, Raju also fudged Satyams books to inflate its revenues and profits, to increase the value of its shares. Raju was able to do this for eight years-until the recession hit in 2008 and the bubble blew in his face.Having come into the IT industry by accident-he was not a technology professional himself-Raju became the toast of Hyderabad as he built a company spread across sixty-six countries in five continents. Close to the powerful and the rich, Raju also created a parallel real estate empire, going on to successfully bid for the Hyderabad metro rail project, the one act that brought his house of cards crashing down.How did Raju amass his IT and real estate empires? How could he hoodwink the law, the shareholders, and his employees for so long? This unputdownable fly-on-the-wall narrative, written with incisive depth by Kingshuk Nag, resident editor of the Hyderabad edition of The Times of India, captures the dramatic story of Rajus life.

Author : Gita Piramal
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789351187394

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Business Maharajas by Gita Piramal Pdf

The inside track to India's most powerful tycoons The eight business maharajas profiled here are among Asia's most powerful industrial tycoons, Their combined turnover runs into billions of rupees, and between them they employ some 650,000 people, while indirectly affecting the lives of millions more. Sip a cup of tea, drive to work, listen to music, build a house and the chances are that in these and a myriad other ways you are using products that they manufacture or market. By any yardstick, the achievements of these men would rank among the great business stories of our time. How did these men build their enormous empires? What are their management secrets? How did they thrive and prosper even as others failed? What is their vision for the future? Top business writer and industry insider Gita Piramal draws on exhaustive interviews and in-depth research to discover the answers to these and related questions in her profiles of the men who will lead the country's push to become an industrial superpower in the 21st century.

Author : Kingshuk Nag
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789350295304

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Battleground Telangana by Kingshuk Nag Pdf

When the state of Andhra Pradesh was formed in 1956, the people of Telangana (the region ruled by the Nizams at the time of independence) did not want to be a part of it, fearing that they would be displaced by the more enterprising and better educated migrants from the Andhra region. In 1969, massive agitations for a separate Telangana left 400 people dead but the movement petered out. With the creation of new states like Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Uttaranchal in 2000, the battle for Telangana began once again. In 2009, the Indian government announced that Telangana would be a separate state, but is now dilly-dallying, worried about the backlash from the Andhra region. At the heart of the problem is the city of Hyderabad, which lies bang in the middle of Telangana but is being claimed by both sides. Is the upsurge in Telangana so strong that the Indian government will be unable to resist it? Is there a middle course? This book explores the complex issues, and the underlying causes of the Telangana movement.

Author : Sunanda Mehta
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781529036954

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The Extraordinary Life and Death of Sunanda Pushkar by Sunanda Mehta Pdf

An extraordinary life. A strange death. The untold story of Sunanda Pushkar. On 17 January 2014, Sunanda Pushkar, businesswoman and wife of writer and politician Shashi Tharoor, was found dead in her hotel suite in New Delhi. Her death was as shocking as it was suspect, spawning many a controversy and complex legal battles. Her life was no less dramatic but far lesser known. A culmination of material drawn from personal archives, numerous interviews and investigation across continents, this riveting biography attempts to answer the question: Who really was Sunanda Pushkar? Was she a social climber hankering after power and fame? Or was she bold and unconventional, achieving success on her own merit only to become a casualty of circumstance? Was she a villain or a victim? Or a bit of both? In search of these answers, Sunanda Mehta, journalist and Pushkar’s former schoolmate, traces her subject’s life from her early days in cantonment towns, to her first two marriages, a largely unknown stint in Canada, her rise as a Dubai businesswoman, and finally her much-publicized years with Tharoor until her controversial death shook the nation. Through the soaring highs and wrecking lows that marked her forty-nine years, Sunanda Pushkar lived with passion, ambition and defiance. This definitive biography is the account of her phenomenal life and its turbulent end.

Author : Kingshuk Nag
Publisher : AuthorsUpFront | Paranjoy
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789384439705

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Netaji: Living Dangerously by Kingshuk Nag Pdf

Did Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose die in an air crash in Taihoku (Taipei, Taiwan) on 18 August 1945? Was he sent off to Siberia by Joseph Stalin? Did he die there? Or did he escape? Or was he let off, eventually to make his way back to India? Was he the mysterious Gumnami Baba of Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh? If so, how did he find his way back? Why did Bose leave India when he did? Was it on account of his political approach, which was opposed by the then high command of the Congress party that wanted a quick transfer of power from the British? The past comes alive as journalist and author Kingshuk Nag seeks answers to these and related questions at a time when there is a considerable renewal of interest in Netaji’s fate with old records tumbling out, the latest being the declassification of 64 files on the subject by the West Bengal government. Will the Union government make public the records that it holds, as has been stated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi? Will the governments in Moscow and London be approached for new leads? Netaji: Living Dangerously is a riveting account of the life of one of India’s most charismatic leaders and an in-depth analysis of one of the world’s best kept secrets.

Author : Gabriel Khan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789350299654

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Special 26 by Gabriel Khan Pdf

A racy thriller based on the new action flick starring Akshay Kumar, Manoj Bajpai and Anupam Kher An edge-of- the-seat thriller, the novel pits a crack CBI team led by ace investigator Waseem Khan against India's brainiest conman, Ajay, whose gang is responsible for a series of outrageous robberies that have been carried out across the country. Khan knows it isn't going to be easy outsmarting Ajay, once a passionate aspirant to a police job, who is now vicious in his hatred of the force. He also knows he has no option but to chase the gang down before it can cause any further damage. Already, business tycoons and cinema stars and prominent politicians have been duped of lakhs of rupees, and the police are under fire from all quarters. As Khan prepares his final master plan, the action moves to a well-known jewellery store at the Opera House in South Mumbai. Khan is determined that things will turn out differently on his watch.

Author : Larry Pressler
Publisher : Viking
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0670089311

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Neighbours in Arms by Larry Pressler Pdf

Author : Pavan C. Lall
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789388322386

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Flawed by Pavan C. Lall Pdf

In early 2018, the implosion of Nirav Modi’s Firestar Diamonds International, on its way to becoming India’s first truly global luxury company, threw the country’s diamond industry and its banking system into utter disarray. Allegations against Modi, of defrauding banks to the tune of US$1.8 billion, brought a whole business community under scrutiny and escalated rapidly into an international scandal. Based on personal encounters, incisive interviews and meticulous research, this riveting narrative exposes the incredible twists and turns of the Nirav Modi story – of a third-generation diamantaire who moved from Belgium to India to apprentice with his uncle, Mehul Choksi, an established diamond merchant with extensive connections; of an astute businessman whose firm grip over an intercontinental supply chain saw his branded jewellery stores dotting not just every Indian metropolis but also marquee locations such as London, New York and Hong Kong; and of a reclusive, inscrutable man with a penchant for the high life that possibly led him to fly too close to the sun. As the Nirav Modi saga – complete with his arrest on international soil, rejected bail pleas, extradition theatrics and the frenzied pursuit of diamond-trading minutiae by investigative agencies across three nations – continues to make headlines, Flawed recounts in close, compelling detail the rise of a global player and his equally dramatic fall. Arresting and revelatory, it raises indispensable questions about how one man’s drive to succeed at all costs can jeopardize an entire ecosystem.

Author : Pavan C. Lall
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789390351442

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Yes Man by Pavan C. Lall Pdf

The Rise and Fall of One of India's Most Promising Bankers The year was 2004, India's economy was booming and 'India Shining' seemed like a true slogan. Around the same time, a non-banking financial company applied for and received a licence to operate as a private bank. Yes Bank was born. Its rise was phenomenal and it soon became the fourth-largest private bank in the country, with approved permissions to operate in Singapore, London and Dubai. The returns were also immense: shareholders received hefty dividends on their investments for years on end. That is, till the skeletons began tumbling out of the Yes Bank lockers. Stories of the bank's reckless lending were going around, and allegations of bribery and corruption became rife. Ultimately, in March 2020, the bank ran out of money, and customers were unable to get their own savings out of their accounts. The bank's promoter Rana Kapoor was arrested, and multiple agencies began what is still an ongoing probe. Yes Man is the story of Rana Kapoor, and his Icarus-like flight that eventually led to the Yes Bank crisis. From starting out as a junior employee at Bank of America to leading a bank worth billions, Kapoor's rise and fall is a case study in ambition, greed and deceit. In this hard-hitting book, Pavan C. Lall details not only Rana Kapoor's journey, but also asks tough questions about the banking system, its regulators and even the business environment that led to a point of no return for Yes Bank.

Author : R. N. Bhaskar
Publisher : Portfolio/Penguin
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 0670090883

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Game India by R. N. Bhaskar Pdf

India may widely be acknowledged as one of the fastest-growing major economies in the world, but how can this vast, diverse and heavily populated nation sustain growth prospects? Game India offers a decisive answer. Through chapters, at once ambitious and engaging, it outlines seven key unrealized opportunities India can pursue to remain a leading player on the world economic superhighway: solar power; an enviable coastline and waterways; milk; agriculture; a huge population that, among other things, can yield methane; innovation; and unleashing human potential through education, justice and health. In studying these seven strategic advantages, the book explores what has been done (or not done) thus far to exploit them, what potential they hold out for people, and how they could redefine the game for this country. Weaving together industry lore, keenly analyzed data, and one-on-one interviews with corporate moguls-from Verghese Kurien and the Pais of Manipal to Gautam Adani and Brij Mohan Munjal-Game India is essential reading for every Indian looking ahead.

Author : Kingshuk Nag
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789351940159

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The NaMo Story: A Political Life by Kingshuk Nag Pdf

One of the truly enigmatic personalities on the contemporary Indian political canvas, Narendra Damodardas Modi is difficult to ignore. From his humble beginnings as a RSS pracharak to his rise in the Hindutva ranks, and from being Bharatiya Janata Party’s master planner to one of the its most popular and controversial state chief ministers, Modi’s mantra of change and development is gradually finding many takers. Though he evokes vastly different reactions among the citizens for his alleged role during the Godhra aftermath, what is absolutely clear is that he indeed is racing towards the centre stage, making the 2014 General Elections look more like a Presidential system – where, you either vote for him or against him. And that, as they say, is the Modi effect. Kingshuk Nag paints the most vivid portrait of the extraordinary politician who is poised to take on a new role in the coming years.

Author : Sandeep Hasurkar
Publisher : Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9389967538

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Never Too Big to Fail by Sandeep Hasurkar Pdf

Multiple stakeholders, including bankers, bureaucrats and other government authorities helped create an Icarus- the Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited, which soared higher and higher only to get burnt by its own ambitions. Its highly valued companies have gone bankrupt and are now being purchased at distress sale prices by the highest bidder.