Nothing succeeds like success.
Nothing proves the saying more than the success of the Cochin International Airport, which has now received a coffee table history that, once again celebrates, an unlikely project and unlikely heroes behind its success.
Insignia of a Dream is a narrative that relies on sources ranging from official records to personal interviews. The authors say in their preface that there is no attempt to catalogue but to recount and relate the past with the present. To bridge the now with the then; to look back with a sense of satisfaction over the roads travelled and goals conquered.
It succeeds in evoking a feel of the struggles that the team of officials and managers went through to realise India’s first airport in public-private-partnership. From political decisions to choices in engineering design, the book provides a ringside view of the formation of the airport.
Personalities such as former chief ministers K. Karunakaran, A. K. Antony and E. K. Nayanar are celebrated along with V.J. Kurien, the first managing director of the company that blazed a trail in establishing the airport.
The book also contains photographs that paint a picture of the beginnings and take the readers close to the realities of the times when the project was conceived. Muddy fields, banana orchards, winding village roads and large swathes of rice paddies bring to mind the sacrifices the people of Nedumbassery made in realising the project.
01/04/16 The Hindu
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Nothing proves the saying more than the success of the Cochin International Airport, which has now received a coffee table history that, once again celebrates, an unlikely project and unlikely heroes behind its success.
Insignia of a Dream is a narrative that relies on sources ranging from official records to personal interviews. The authors say in their preface that there is no attempt to catalogue but to recount and relate the past with the present. To bridge the now with the then; to look back with a sense of satisfaction over the roads travelled and goals conquered.
It succeeds in evoking a feel of the struggles that the team of officials and managers went through to realise India’s first airport in public-private-partnership. From political decisions to choices in engineering design, the book provides a ringside view of the formation of the airport.
Personalities such as former chief ministers K. Karunakaran, A. K. Antony and E. K. Nayanar are celebrated along with V.J. Kurien, the first managing director of the company that blazed a trail in establishing the airport.
The book also contains photographs that paint a picture of the beginnings and take the readers close to the realities of the times when the project was conceived. Muddy fields, banana orchards, winding village roads and large swathes of rice paddies bring to mind the sacrifices the people of Nedumbassery made in realising the project.
01/04/16 The Hindu
