Forbes India Global Business Traveller's Guide: Indians are learning to do business in difficult places
The transport aircraft started its engines and began vibrating so hard it seemed the rivets would all come off. This didn’t seem to bother most of the passengers in its smelly interior, probably because they were all livestock. But the engineers from ONGC Videsh who were sharing the cabin space began fervently saying their prayers. Their fears notwithstanding, they did make it to their destination Sakhalin, in the Russian Far East, an island once used as an extreme detention centre for Soviet convicts.
(This story appears in the 21 May, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)