The Hindu 'Das's unique success is to tell the Indian story of "desire" which is much beyond sexuality' Indian Express 'If you are someone who has ever loved, or lost, or dreamed He is a poet-philosopher to be cherished' Own personal search for a more meaningful life-The Difficulty of Being Good shines the light of an ancient poem on the most challenging moral ambiguities of modern life.Ī RIVETING ACCOUNT OF LOVE AND DESIRE 'This is an exquisite book, at once tender and profane, like desire itself' Shashi Tharoor 'With this book and others,ĭas has established himself as a truly modern Indian thinker' Sanjaya Baru, The Week 'Das has created this sense of enchantment. With the flair and seemingly effortless erudition that have made Gurcharan Das a bestselling author around the world-and enlivened by Das's forthright discussion of his In every case, he finds striking parallels that carry lessons for everyone faced with ethical and moral dilemmas in today's complex world.Written Das explores the Mahabharata from many perspectivesĪnd compares the successes and failures of the poem's characters to those of contemporary individuals, many of them highly visible players in the world of economics,īusiness, and politics. Precision our own familiar emotions of anxiety, courage, despair, remorse, envy, compassion, vengefulness, and duty. Each major character in the epic embodies a significant moral failing or virtue, and their struggles mirror with uncanny Hero does something wrong in a Greek epic, he wastes little time on self-reflection when a hero falters in the Mahabharata, the action stops and everyone weighs in withĪ different and often contradictory take on dharma. A sprawling, witty, ironic, and delightful poem, the Mahabharata is obsessed with the elusive notion of dharma-in essence, doing the right thing. To the brink of collapse? In The Difficulty of Being Good, Gurcharan Das seeks answers to these questions in an unlikely source: the 2,000 year-old Sanskrit epic,
Headlines-that have not only destroyed individual lives but caused widespread calamity as well, bringing communities, nations, and indeed the global economy Why should we be good? How should we be good? And how might we more deeply understand the moral and ethical failings-splashed across today's The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma
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