The Difficulty Of Being Good

About the Book: The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma

Why be good? What exactly is Dharma? Here's a book that tella you all!

Why be good? What exactly is Dharma? How does one practise it, and to what effect? Gurcharan Dass superb exposition of the dilemmas and ambiguities inherent in the Mahabharata shows us how we can come to terms with the uncertain ethics of the world today, a world that is uncannily similar to that of the great epic.

About the Author: Gurcharan Das

Gurcharan Das is the author of the international bestseller India Unbound and a columnist for six Indian newspapers, including the Times of India. He also writes occasionally for Newsweek, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Foreign Affairs. Gurcharan Das graduated from Harvard University where he studied philosophy with John Rawls and Sanskrit under Daniel Ingalls. He was CEO of Procter & Gamble India before he took early retirement to become a full-time writer. He lives in Delhi.

Reviews

A remarkable tour de force'- Nandan Nilekani

A most-read resolve the moral dilemmas of life'-N.R. Narayana Murthy

A wonderfull combination of the scholarly and the personal, the academic and the meditative- Wendy Doniger

A significant Indian contribution to a new, universal Enlightenment that is not Western in origin or character'-Sudhir Kakar