S K Krishnan, Vice-President, Mahindra and Mahindra, Dr Vrinda Jahagirdar, Director and former Chief Economist with SBI, giving away the award to Pyare Khan. By Vikas Vaidya When Motor India Magazine had first invited him to Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad to present his inspiring story to the creme de la creme of management students in India, he politely declined as he had no knowledge about what IIM was. But again this year, IIM, Ahmedabad chose his case out of 1,370 transporters in India and so Pyare Khan, a 43 year old finally narrated the story of his journey to success before top management stalwarts and ended up being adjudged the winner. Pyare Khan from Nagpur, not even a Class X passout and a former auto-rickshaw driver, answered all the questions put up by the jurists, mostly top economists, bankers and industrialists and won their hearts. So now, his story will be studied by IIM students. Pyare Khan belonged to a family with meagre means and so li...
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