The Blue Lady : A Tale of a Ship

"""The book by Sanjay Parikh is a fascinating narration of the tale of SS Blue Lady and her exciting travels with well-known personalities. At the same time, it provides a chilling insight into the illegal trade of hazardous waste and the many actors involved—a must-read to better understand the dark side of shipping."" —Ingvild Jenssen Founder and Director, NGO Shipbreaking Platform, Brussels ★★★ It is fascinating to see someone creating a story from a not-so- interesting hazardous waste ban case and making a ship-Blue Lady, standing at Alang counting her last days, to speak about her romance, intrigue, betrayal and desertion, laced with some yarns and enticing embellishments. I think for my colleagues in the legal fraternity, nothing more exciting to read-while waiting interminably for their cases to be taken up! —Norma Alvares Environmentalist and Senior Advocate ★★★ Everything that exists on this earth, from the smallest to the biggest, has a story to tell. Footprints of its life remain forever etched in the memories of the time. It is for the storyteller to weave the shades and shines, joys and sorrows, despair and happiness, love and dejection in a manner that brings the narrative to life. The Blue Lady is, therefore, the tale of a majestic passenger liner, its glory and grandeur and the trials and tribulations she faced while laying herself bare before the vast ocean. While history contains the names of great and royal passengers she carried, her heart withheld many secrets, intrigues, deceits and conspiracies. She watched time moving. Once, the Mona Lisa one of the world's greatest works of art chose to travel with her from France to New York. So did Salvador Dali, the great surrealist painter, and many other famous writers and celebrities "