Anand's World

Book excerpt: A principled and visionary entrepreneur, Anand steers his fledgling firm through the rough and tumble of the Indian business environment, achieving fame and recognition. Anand’s World, a unique business fiction set in the pre-liberalised era of the 70’s, describes this journey as the company transitions into the liberalised era. The reader will get to know the daily drama, politics and comedy which are an integral part of corporate life. Further, a series of sus-penseful events involving the management, a hostile union, conscientious government officials and a corrupt legislator takes the organisation through twists and turns, to reach a climax with an unexpected ending. The book reveals the decisive part played by chance, emotions, politics, in-trigues and human behaviour in the destiny of a business enterprise. The author has spent his entire career in the automotive industry. He has other literary accom-plishments besides this book. His experience and creativity bring life to a company before the reader. Written in simple style, no prior business knowledge or experience is necessary to com-prehend the narration. This will be of interest to all readers, especially those embarking on a ca-reer or connected with any aspect of management, business, company operations, entrepreneur-ship and public governance.