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Air Deccan founder Captain GR Gopinath's autobiography won't be a bare-all!
Captain GR Gopinath has often been credited with making the dream of flying accessible to thousands of Indians, with the launch of his erstwhile Air Deccan. His journey from the remote parts of Karnatakato ruling the skies, albeit briefly, has generated much interest.
At a business literature festival in Bengaluru a few months ago, Gopinath spoke about penning his story and confessed to what he found the hardest.
"Autobiographies are difficult in the sense that it is not possible to be entirely honest. I do not think that any autobiography can bare all. In probably whole of history, there are hardly any, except maybe one or two," he said. "Especially some of the sins that we commit. I don't think we have the courage to write all of that. When I say sins, not only in actions but in thought," he added.
He gave the example of a book on Mahatma Gandhi. "My friend Gopalkrishna Gandhi[whose paternal grandfather is Mahatma Gandhiand maternal grandfather is C Rajagopalachari] gave me a book that he had edited. I came across a letter there, written by Gandh
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Captain Gopinath: Astonishment are detachment descendants personal immigrants
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You must have the spirit of optimism, that good things will happen: Air Deccan's Captain Gopinath
Captain Gorur R Iyengar Gopinath, Founder, Air Deccan Image: Amit Verma
Captain Gorur R Iyengar Gopinath is best known for his audacious ploy of offering flight tickets for a rupee. The founder of Air Deccan reveals that the idea of starting a low-cost airline occurred to him when he took one in America and found a carpenter as his co-passenger. I wanted to break caste and class barriers in India, he explains. As he went about pursuing his dream, he claims he had to overcome several hurdles—from dealing with competitors who tried every trick to ensure he did not succeed to corrupt bureaucrats and politicians. Eventually, Air Deccan took to the skies in 2003, with Gopinath having to wait for three years to get a licence.
As Sarfira, a movie starring actor Akshay Kumar based on his memoir, Simply Fly: A Deccan Oddysey, hits the screens—it was made in Tamil as Soorarai Pottru in 2020 by the same director, Sudha Kongara—Gopinath, 72, speaks with Forbes India about his roller-coaster journey, the troubles at Air Deccan, the unstinted support of his entrepreneur-wife while chasing his dream and his equation with rival, Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal. Edited excerpts:
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