A Book review on SIMPLY FLY:A DECCAN ODYSSEY written by CAPTAIN GOPINATH

"SIMPLY FLY : A DECCAN ODYSSEY" is a aspiring, riveting story of an Indian entrepreneur, Capt.G.R.Gopinath. His story of rags to riches will leave everyone wonderstruck, drop everyone’s jaws and inspire the things to move on. The story of captain reveals us indomitable, never extinguishing spirit of true entrepreneurship.

SIMPLY FLY:A DECCAN ODYSSEY

    This book "SIMPLY FLY: A DECCAN ODYSSEY" reveals his early life amidst the beautiful, lush greeneries and picturesque landscapes of Gorur. His experience as courageous Intelligent Officer with unstoppable heroism, in Indian army and also the interesting lives of artillery men will leave the readers thrilled and never fail to create nail-biting moments, especially the description of war scenes and strategies planning before the war and rescue operations. After his military life, the story demonstrates the hardships of an uprising farmer-Gopinath and his introspections on himself and his farm would leave any readers cradled by the mother nature, his lessons were completely practical, definitely an out of box thinking. Meanwhile his interests in silk rearing were also discussed in this book. He tried and played various roles of entrepreneurship like poultry ,farming, silk rearing, motor cycle dealer, Udupi hotel owner, stock broker, irrigation equipment dealer, an agriculture consultant. His unsuccessful efforts in the state politics of Karnataka were mentioned. Those versos portrayed his different campaign techniques for the election. Though he failed by a huge margin in the election, his campaign techniques and indomitable confidence were highly appreciable, a basic asset to an entrepreneur.

    Aftermath inspired by the story of Vietnamese orphan girl who starts flying helicopters to help her country rebuild after 1969-1975 Vietnam war, he with his friend Samuel started a low cost aviation company in India-‘Deccan Aviation’. His efforts and struggles to start the company were highly confident stimulating for the readers. If anyone other than Gopinath experienced numerous setbacks like him, he would become devastated and later diminished. His company became pace setter of aviation industry during those times and By now,he was fondly remembered as the father of Indian low-cost airlines. The narration of the film “Soorarai pottru” is based on the story of Captain Gopinath.

Capt.Gopinath

Capt.Gopinath is a multi-dimensional, a multi faceted personality, that every entrepreneur strive to become. After reading this book, I feel that this book contains invaluable, entrepreneurial and practical experiences. In the voyage of his life, he had discovered and experimented himself with various roles and this book never fails to inspire millions of youths with the spark of confidence, and courage to pursuit their dream and being experimenting multi-dimensional life. This book "SIMPLY FLY:A DECCAN ODYSSEY" sows risk taking trait to our mind and also inspires us to achieve our goal by our unexhausting spirit. Simply Fly-definitely an ode to every readers.