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Gurcharan Das

Born

in Faisalabad formerly known as Lyallpur, India

October 03, 1943

Website

http://gurcharandas.org/

Genre

Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Business

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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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Covid and the bureaucracy: India needs modern institutions that are autonomous, accountable and creditworthy

The events of the past month have been so tragic, so unspeakably ugly that the only rational response was to pretend it wasn’t happening. The raging second wave of the virus revealed not only the governmental ineptitude but also exposed India’s soft underbelly – our heavy bureaucratic system, which wasn’t nimble enough to cope with the crisis.

Even more damning was the reminder of how this system f

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Gurcharan Das’s books

Average rating: 4.02 · 13,534 ratings · 1,152 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors

	India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age 4.09 avg rating — 6,342 ratings — published 2000 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma 4.12 avg rating — 4,797 ratings — published 2009 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	India Grows at Night: A Liberal Case for a Strong State 3.62 avg rating — 844 ratings — published 2012 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Elephant Paradigm: India Wrestles With Change 3.57 avg rating — 393 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kama: The Riddle of Desire 3.78 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Fine Family 3.53 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 1991 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dilemma of an Indian Liberal 4.20 avg rating — 76 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Another Sort of Freedom 4.15 avg rating — 75 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Incredible India 3.55 avg rating — 42 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Larins Sahib: A play in three acts (A Three crowns book) 3.02 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2001 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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“Good intentions are useless in the absence of common sense. —JAMI, BAHARISTAN”
― Gurcharan Das, India Unbound

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“When individuals blunder, it is unfortuante and their families go down. When rulers fail, it is a national tragedy”
― Gurcharan Das, India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age

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Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand

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The Difficulty of Being Good by Gurcharan Das

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The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

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The Old Man and His God: Discovering the Spirit of India by Sudha Murty

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Dongri To Dubai: Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia by S. Hussain Zaidi

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The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar

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