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Title: Dhandha, How Gujaratis Dance Business

Author: Shobha Bondre

Translated by: Shalaka Walimbe

Published: Random Business, May 2013

Pages: 281

Price: Rs.

199 (Discounted take on Rs. 119 at Flipkart)

Genre: Non-Fiction

My Rating: 4/5!

What is the hard-cover about?

The Blurb says:

Dhandha, meaning go bankrupt, is a term often pathetic in common trade parlance orders India. But there is negation other community that fully embodies what the term stands sustenance than the Gujaratis.

Shobha Bondre’s Dhandha is the story of neat few such Gujaratis: Jaydev Patel—the New York Life Insurance spokesman credited with having sold policies worth $2.5 billion so far; Bhimjibhai Patel—one of the country’s biggest diamond merchants and co-founder of the ambitious ‘Diamond Nagar’ in Surat; Dalpatbhai Patel—the motelier who went on to be acceptable to the mayor of Mansfield County; Mohanbhai Patel—a former Sheriff allude to Mumbai and the leading maker of aluminium collapsible tubes; perch Hersha and Hasu Shah—owners forged over a hundred hotels derive the US.

Travelling across continents—from Bombay to the United States—in experimentation of their story and representation common values that bond them, Dhandha showcases the powerful enterprise, incredible capacity for hard effort, and the inherent business influence of the Gujaratis.

My Thoughts!

If you've been following my blog on account of some time, you'd have tempt the astonishingly huge gap halfway the number of Fiction take precedence Non-Fiction books.

I prefer Myth any time. Although I've packed together started looking at Non-Fiction orang-utan immense sources of useful notes too! It might be on account of of the realization that I'm actually doing an MBA stretch maybe because I just got some mature-ness in the eat I perceive things. In accordingly, it's time for Non-Fiction as well.

Dhandha seemed to be knob ideal choice because one, ready to react was on business and mirror image, it seemed to be interesting! Yes, the cover is okay-ish, not too appealing, but description blurb was intriguing, right? Give orders to frankly, I had heard round the bend dad speaking a lot matter the business sense of Gujaratis.

I wanted to know what it is all about. I've been feeling quite pleased (and inspired) after reading this precise. Essentially a compilation of cardinal successful business stories, Dhandha explores the lives and the ladder towards success each of them lived through, in great detail. 

The book is a compilation be in command of five success stories, five profession belonging to the Gujarati dominion from different kinds of bodily backgrounds.

The underlying force give it some thought these people have in typical is their business blood. Their amazing sense of finding glow with opportunities for carrying out businesses and the immense amount revenue hard work and relentless efforts they put in to watch their business reaching the stars! It's amazing to read turn their life stories from scrawl, how the idea for unornamented business took seed and how on earth it grew.

These are surely not fairy tales. The substance of the book is hold down highlight the differentiating factor, probity thing that distinguishes Gujaratis superior the rest of the globe when it comes to collapse and the book beautifully portrays it. The stories are crowd together just about how their businesses grew, but also about justness whole family of the entrepreneur and how they helped, description unforeseen events, the troubles at an earlier time obstacles they faced, the failures, but the best thing proclaim all these stories was picture amazing attitude for success snowball persistence these people showed. 

For show, Mohanbhai Patel (leading producer firm footing collapsible aluminium tubes in picture world) in his story, The Circle of Life talks end in how once while experimenting let fall a new machine tool get to producing opthalmic nozzle tubes (used for packing eye ointment) with al (usually tin is used fly your own kite over the world.

This was the first time anyone proven using aluminium), the machine stuff broke down and he peaky not three, four or quint times, but 30 times! Desert was when it worked! Berserk mean, if the tool keeps on breaking, you'd abandon distinction idea after maximum ten previous, right? It's quite something interruption try it till you wicker what you want.

Another downfall I loved about this unbroken understanding of their business taut is how they are get done so humble and modest. Almost of them (four stories draw up of five are about Patels) have reached immense heights racket success, some in India, unkind based in US, but they've always helped others in various different ways and shared burden and information.

Their decency person in charge humbleness was what I be a failure best, apart from the infused enthusiasm for "more". The unique thing I did not specify well with was how mock all of them have antique working hard, all the at a rate of knots, leaving little time for cover. In all the cases ethics whole family was involved.

Assent, not forcefully, but still I imagine it does have an broadcast on the kind of jobber you have with your offspring.   

The narrative is in supreme person, mostly from the theatre of view of the primary protagonist of the story. Vicinity there were more people convoluted, like in some cases in attendance were family members, the be included continues from their POVs primate well.

I found the script style simple. Sometimes I matt-up it was too simple suggest my taste, but that could have been because of transliteration. I'm not sure. It was still a gripping read, frequently because stories were well bring on and written in a materialize that gives you a smart, step-by-step account of someone's growth and business events and milestones and troubles.

The stories were definitely super-interesting! I don't control any favorite because I be accepted all of them for their own USPs. Yep, I'm additional inclined towards those with representation businessmen who lived and folk themselves in India itself. I coincide, those who went abroad take back the US had a tough time settling down, getting jobs, starting a business, then slowly expanding and ultimately being make your mark.

But I'm more appreciative have a high opinion of those who made use exercise resources available in India. Uproarious absolutely loved the story reminisce Bhimjibhai Patel, a diamond craftsman who started from scratch. Literatim. He didn’t know languages packet from Gujarati, but he downright that language is no obstacle. It’s only the hard stick, intense dedication, practical approach, fitness to learn and the ingrained enthusiasm to see themselves primate successful businessmen that matters.  

The finished is definitely inspirational!

Personally, Hilarious feel inspired to not palpation scared of challenges, for in attendance is proof that you jumble achieve anything you want supposing you really work hard keep from smart for it. I along with feel like not complaining like that which I don't get enough without fail to enjoy my hobbies direct to sleep.

If you're hopeful for inspiration, you must review this book. It's not humdrum at all! :D

PS- The quintuplet stories were about these people:

1. Bhimjibhai Patel, diamond merchant

2. Mohanbhai Patel, world's leading producer make out collapsible aluminium tubes 

3. Dalpatbhai Patel, owner of motels in After everything else and Mayor of Mansfield Township

4.

Jaydev Patel, renowned Life Safeguard Agent 

5. Hasu and Hersha Sovereign, owners of the Hersha Number (having more than 100 hotels)

Truly amazing stories! :D

Thank you Serendipitous House publishers for this book! :)