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Gurcharan Das

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October 03, 1943 in Faisalabad formerly known as Lyallpur, India

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http://gurcharandas.org/

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Gurcharan Das (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਚਰਨ ਦਾਸ, Hindi: गुरचरण दास), (born October 3, 1943), is an Indian author, commentator and public intellectual. He is the author of The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of dharma which interrogates the epic, Mahabharata. His international bestseller, India Unbound, is a narrative account of India from Independence to the global Information Age, and has been published in many languages and filmed by BBC.

He is a regular columnist for six Indian newspapers in English, Hindi, Telugu and Marathi, and he writes periodic pieces for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Newsweek.

He graduated with honors from Harvard University in Philosophy. He later attended Harvard Busi...more

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The government is not above the rule of law

It takes a lot of doing to make the economy fall from a 9 per cent growth rate two and half years ago to 6.1 per cent in the quarter ending December. A fall of one per cent means the loss of almost 15 lakh jobs and so there is a lot of pain, mostly inflicted by the UPA government. Corruption scandals also refuse to cease. But the real tragedy is that the rule of law, one of India's strengths, i...

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Books by Gurcharan Das

Average rating: 3.94 · 951 ratings · 96 reviews · 6 distinct works

	India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age 3.97 avg rating — 655 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Difficulty of Being Good 4.03 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Elephant Paradigm: India Wrestles With Change 3.40 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	A Fine Family 3.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	Larins Sahib: A Play In Three Acts 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Morality of Markets by Parth Shah (Editor), Gurcharan Das (Contribution by), Milton Friedman (Contribution by) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	My rating:

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“Dharma is easiest to spot by its absence: the Mahabharata employs the pedagogical technique of teaching about dharma via its opposite, adharma”
― Gurcharan Das

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