Going solo in a waltz

In her biography of Rahul Bajaj, Gita Piramal writes how Indira Gandhi proved to be a game changer in India's two-wheeler story and why Bajaj chose to go it alone

September 1989 finds (Rahul) Bajaj in San Francisco to attend the International Industrial Conference hosted by the Stanford Research Institute International and attended by business leaders from sixty-two countries. This year’s theme was ‘Managing in a Competitive Global Economy’.
 

Walking around the campus, listening to Sony’s Akio Morita summit opening speech, chatting with buddies Viren Shah and Ashok Birla, Bajaj’s mind kept returning to the question: could deregulation and import liberalization lead to quality products which can take on international competition. ‘At present it looks beyond our reach to be global,’ he figures despondently.
 

To the India Abroad reporter Batuk