'Odyssey of Courage' book review: Habil Khorakiwala's high five

The book is a treatise on social history of Indian businesses when chips were loaded against any technology- or science-based industry in India of Licence Raj

Odyssey of Courage

The story of an Indian multinational

Habil Khorakiwala

Maven Rupa

225 pages; Rs 595

If you have lived in Mumbai for some time, you could not have missed one of Flora Fountain’s landmarks — the Akbarallys departmental store, now converted into a men’s only destination. The journey of “A boy from Bombay” – as the founder of Wockhardt, Habil Khorakiwala, describes himself in the autobiography – from the iconic, but local, shop owner’s son to leader of a pharmaceutical multinational is not just the story of a man who was willing to learn and master the science and business of drug discovery. 

Equally,