Simply Fly English 2011

This 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.