Capture The Dream: The Many Lives of Captain C. P. Krishnan Nair by Bachi Karkaria. Published in 2022 by Juggernaut Books, C-1-128, First Floor, Sangam Vihar, Near Holi Chowk, New Delhi, 110080. Pp: xii+253. Price: Rs 799.
A boy born in a humble family in a small hamlet in Kerala’s Kannur district rose to dizzying heights. Capt Chittarath Poovakkatt Krishnan Nair would have been 100 in February 2022. By the time he passed away, aged 92, his rich legacy straddled the world of textiles, hospitality and a whole lot more. In this biography commissioned by the family on the occasion of......