Difficulty Of Being Good(Hardcover) Book Description
In his new book, Gurcharan Das turns to the "Mahabharata" in order to answer the question, 'why be good?', and discovers that the epic's world of moral haziness and uncertainty is closer to our experience as ordinary human beings than the narrow and rigid positions that define most debate in this fundamentalist age of moral certainty. The "Mahabharata" is obsessed with the elusive notion of dharmaoin essence, doing the right thing. When a hero falters, the action stops and everyone weighs in with a different and often contradictory take on dharma. The epic's characters are flawed, but their incoherent experiences throw light on our familiar dilemmas. Gurcharan Das' best-selling book "India Unbound" examined the classical aim of artha, material well being. This, his first book in seven years, dwells on the goal of dharma, moral well being. It addresses the central problem of how to live our lives in an examined wayoholding a mirror up to us and forcing us to confront the many ways in which we deceive ourselves and others. What emerges is a doctrine of dharma that we can apply to our business decisions, political strategies and interpersonal relationshipsoin effect, to life itself.
Very impressive. everywhere we find corruption, people get confused. what is Dharma. What is the right path to follow. But i'm sure this will be eye opener for all human being.Enjoy reading..
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The Oeuvre: His first book India Unbound captured the country in economic transition and became an instant best seller. In Difficulty of Being Good, his most recent book, he turned to Mahabharata to find answers for some of the pressing ethical ...
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A world renowned author, his book India Unbound is a narrative account of India from Independence to the global information age, and has been published in 17 languages and filmed by BBC. He is also well known for his work 'The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of dharma' (Penguin 2009) which interrogates the epic, Mahabharata, in order to answer the question, 'why be good?' He writes a regular column on Sundays for the Times of India and other ...
The difficulty of being good – The subtle art of Dharma. Author - Gurcharan Das. The title sounds uninteresting when you first see the book. I picked it up just to see what it was about. The word “Dharma” made me think that this ...
In his last book, The Difficulty of Being Good, the former chief executive of Proctor & Gamble in India expounds on dharma, or the path of righteousness. If his first book, India Unbound, in the final decade of the last millennium, was about artha ...
... or teacher have convinced you it's a good read – what do you think makes you chose a specific book? It's all in the title: the [profound] difficulty of being good. Ha! I have always struggled between the ideal and the practical.
After a long time spent in reading mediocre books, I was searching for an ideal book to revive my reading habit. This fantastic book, "The Difficulty of Being Good - On the Subtle Art of Dharma" by Gurcharan Das, was recently ...
I picked up "The Difficulty of Being Good" on the recommendation of a colleague. And I had no idea what the book was about. But two people recommended it in two days and coincidentally, I found it in my library – all of which ...
The Difficulty of Being Good does an in depth analysis of major characters in the Mahabharata. The book is a must read, in the sense, it lends Dharma a new meaning. Various arguments and counter arguments provide new ...
The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma (Kindle Edition) (my review on Amazon.com, all my reviews on Amazon.com) Ambitious work that mostly works. I would however have preferred crisper editing and a ...
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