Dhandha: How Gujaratis Do Business
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About the book
Dhandha, meaning business, is a term often used in common trade parlance in India. Butthere is no other community that fully embodies what the term stands for than the Gujaratis.Shobha Bondre's Dhandha is the story of a few such Gujaratis: Jaydev Patel-the New York LifeInsurance agent credited with having sold policies worth $2.5 billion so far; Bhimjibhai Patel-one ofthe country's biggest diamond merchants and co-founder of the ambitious Diamond Nagar' in Surat;Dalpatbhai Patel-the motelier who went on to become the mayor of Mansfield County; MohanbhaiPatel-a former Sheriff of Mumbai and the leading manufacturer of aluminium collapsible tubes; andHersha and Hasu Shah-owners of over a hundred hotels in the US.Travelling across continents-from Mumbai to the United States-in search of their story and thecommon values that bond them, Dhandha showcases the powerful ambition, incredible capacity forhard work, and the inherent business sense of the Gujaratis.
About the Author
Shobha Bondre is a celebrated and much-published Marathi writer. She has been writing for the last25 years and has published 13 books, many of them bestsellers that have gone into over 25 editions.The non-Marathi reading world is now keen to read her works and her books are being translatedinto English, Hindi, and Gujarati. She has written articles, short stories, and columns for prestigiouspublications like the Maharashtra Times, Loksatta, Lokprabha, Maher, Kirloskar, etc. She has alsowritten dialogues for many popular Marathi TV serials like Abhalmaya, Manasi, Oon Paaus, andArdhangini.In the last few years, personality profiles of people from various walks of life has become Shobha'sforte. For this, she interacts closely with her subjects, understanding them in their social, familial,emotional, and economic settings. She has won many literary awards for her work, including theMaharashtra State Award for Best Novel in 1997, for Saata Samudrapar.
Features
- : Dhandha: How Gujaratis Do Business
- : Random House
- : 8184003129
- : 9788184003123
- : Paperback
- : 292
- : English
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