There are very few days when I’ve worked after dark, but
whenever I do, I make sure to take a look at the lit glass buildings near my
office and the fiery collation of brake lights on Richmond road. The UB city is
hard to miss from my building. The lit elevator shaft and the blue and red of the
helipad on top are always sites I envy. Yday I happened to see a few lit
windows too. Mallya must be at work with his managers I thought, or maybe
drunk? Whatever the case, but I don’t know if they could afford to burn so many
lights I thought to myself and smiled.
As I was walking out towards the exit I caught a third
eye’s view of the top floors of the UB city. He must be working so hard, maybe coming up with something ingenious.
I was actually surprised at myself, Mallya has lost a lot of things while trying
to revive his airline with a broken wing and yet I seem to have some strange confidence
in him. Strange indeed, but that’s when I remembered reading the Forbes of July
20. The cover story said that Mallya and his managers never looked worried or
desperate when they went to talk to their banks or investors. In fact there
seemed to be an air of poised arrogance in their arguments and they had
complete faith in their plans and were completely certain that the KFA would
fly again. Their only argument was - FDI.
Banks together have lost close to rupees 7000 crore! More than half the staff of KFA is
on strike and none of them have received their salaries from 6 months!! How the
hell is he gonna come out of this one?? Then suddenly news comes out that there
might be a deal with Diageo, the world’s largest liquor maker. Mallya and
Diageo were in talks for 2 to 3 years and the talks had failed every time,
maybe nows the end of the road when there needs to be some selling and
sacrificing to get some inflow of money.
That’s when it struck me, how were Mallya and his men so
confident of the FDI?
Just making casual conversation, I spoke with my friends:
Me: Boys! I gotta
theory,
Me: Maybe, Mallya’s
deal with either Heineken or Diageo took some serious turn and he got some prospects
of cash, then with his charisma he cast a spell on the govt to pass the FDI,
the govt is anyway in favor of the brave and the rich, so with pranav da gone,
and chidu taking over finance ministry, Mallya had a chance. Chindu is anyway too
close to the banks, his family or extended started 4 banks in tamil nadu right?
So maybe Mallya worked closely with Chidu, Chaudhary and a few other bank and
govt guys to convince them that if the FDI was passed he would get all the
money he needed to make his kingfisher fly again, and maybe get a bit more.
Me: Andddd… with the
FDI passed, he doesn’t have to make deals with both Heineken and Diageo, maybe that’s
why he’s stalling the Heineken deal.. lets see.. its just a theory :D plus..
you should see his tweets on FDI :P
Friend: But It’s a
tough deciesen for anyone to buy shares in a company with 7k crore in debt.
Me: dude! Anyone would
buy once the govt is out of the way.. as in FDI is passed.. I know I would
Friend: dude.. KFA shares are at 16 rupees or
something.. :P
Me: lol.. yeah I know..
ok heres the time for my ~serious statement making face~ I don’t buy shares for
money dude.. I buy shares for my share. ~hunk look~
Friend: lol :P die..
its end game for Mallya dude.. hes gonna lose the dominant role in UB and US
and even if he gets investors (fat chance) its gonna be pretty much the same on
KFA.. and its all too famous that hes too hard to work when hes not the boss.
Me: hmmm…
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So, the wide spread opinion about Mallya is that much has
been ruined and the only way to keep his head afloat is to sell off everything
and just be a pawn. Well, that’s ridicules.
Now, many people might not like him, his extravaganza or
his business, people might call him an opportunist or even arrogant. I have members
in my own family circles that don’t like him because he made money from the liquor
that ruined so many families. Well, We can blame the Indian conservatives for
that.
Speaking on Mallya, we all know who Vijay Mallya is; hes
a rock star! How many Indians decided to buy an F1 team and name it after
India? How many Indians decided to buy Tipu Sultan’s sword for 505,250 pounds? And
who made sure India didn’t cut a sorry figure when we couldn’t stop the
auctioning of Gandhi’s belongings in 2009?? Mallya.
There might be a lot of reasons to pull down Mallya and
beat on him when hes low, but hes really a man of the riches who also means
well. He doesn’t just want to be and feel rich alone; he wanted all of India to
experience the riches. He wanted to give a luxury experience to the ppl of
India, maybe that’s where he went wrong. When just a simple air travel is
considered luxury in our country... maybe he went a little ahead of time to provide
luxury to everyone in the country.
Ok.. where does he go from now? And what do I see for
him?
It’s simple, the FDI was the last hurdle and now that hes
beyond that, he should be clean. He just needs to watch out for a few months
and then with his charm and elegant arrogance it would be no time before people
joined him in catapulting the broken bird back in the air.
I believe the King of Good Times has proved it that he
has no problems being the Baron at Bad Times… And to all those in strikes and
literally being a pain in his ass... you better switch sides before hes rich
again
TN gets its major chunk of rains
after Sep. KA hardly gets any rains after SEP, and this year especially there
was a draught declared in close to 16 districts.
It’s true that SW monsoon has
been a failure even in TN. But there is still hope for them in the NE monsoon,
but for KA; NE monsoon doesn’t promise much, and in this situation where there
won’t be much rain from now on, is it really wise to release KA’s only source
of water?? Will TN give back kaveri water when they have rains in Nov? or does
KA suffer from draught all over again in the winter?? Please think.
