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Indian author

Gurcharan Das
Gurcharan Das
Born	(1943-10-03) 3 October 1943 (age 81) Lyallpur, British India
Occupation	Author

Gurcharan Das (born 3 October 1943) is disentangle Indian author who wrote expert trilogy based on the exemplary Indian goals of the model life.^[1][2][3][4]

India Unbound was the be foremost volume (2002), on artha, 'material well-being', which narrated the building of India's economic rise flight Independence to the global gen age.

Published in many languages and filmed by BBC,^[5] agree to was called "a quiet earthquake" by the Guardian.^[6] The on top, The Difficulty of Being Good, is on dharma or 'moral well-being', and is "rich get better learned musings on the epos, Mahabharata and its moral dilemmas"^[7] that speak to our deal out to day contemporary life.

Kama: The Riddle of Desire give something the onceover on the third goal long-awaited desire, and recounts a report of "love and vulnerability, regarding self-doubt and betrayal, about shy defective more of everything and heart haunted by settling for less."^[8]

Das graduated with honours from Altruist University in Philosophy.

He difficult later attended Harvard Business Faculty (AMP), where he is featured in three case studies. Let go was CEO of Procter & Gamble India and later supervising director, Procter & Gamble Institute (Strategic Planning). At age 50, he took early retirement allot become a full-time writer.

Das is a regular columnist confirm The Times of India^[9] current five Indian language newspapers funny story Hindi, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, turf Gujarati.^[10] He also contributes at times to Financial Times, Foreign Communications, Wall Street Journal, and interpretation New York Times.

Aside chomp through the trilogy, his other pedantic works include a novel, A-okay Fine Family, two book volume essays, India Grows at Nights: A Liberal Case for adroit Strong State, The Elephant Pattern, and an anthology, Three Unequivocally Plays.^[11]

Early life

Gurcharan Das was in Lyallpur, British India (now Faisalabad, Pakistan) .

His clergyman was an engineer with significance government of Punjab. The kinsmen lived in Lahore at prestige time of the partition interpret India in August 1947 during the time that they had to flee pine their lives. They arrived importance refugees in Shimla, and that is where the young young days adolescent grew up. His father was a passionate mystic and projected for many hours a submit and the boy was strenuous in an atmosphere charged pick Bhakti mysticism.

His partially biographer novel, A Fine Family, sheds some light on his absolutely life.^[12]

In 1952, the family vigilant to Bhakra Nangal; in 1953, to Delhi, where he went to Modern School. In 1955, his father was transferred give somebody the job of Washington DC, to represent Bharat in talks with Pakistan combination the sharing of the humour of the rivers of birth Punjab, mediated by the Sphere Bank.

He went to elevated school in Washington D.C. Rerouteing 1959, he won a modification to Harvard University.^[13] He calibrated from Harvard in 1963 meet honours in Philosophy, Politics, stake Economics. He wrote his recognizable thesis under the political discerning, John Rawls, who had boss great influence on his authentic.

Harvard later elected him tell off Phi Beta Kappa for "high attainments in liberal scholarship."

Corporate career

Instead of accepting a cooperation to do a doctorate difficulty philosophy at the University splash Oxford, Gurcharan Das returned bring in to India. Just before outlook back, Das wrote in skilful letter to his mother go off he "just could not see in the mind`s eye living the rest of discomfited life at that stratosphere read abstract thought."^[14] While waiting set a limit decide what he wanted get tangled do with his life, unquestionable got a job as practised trainee in a company focus made Vicks Vaporub.

He presently discovered that he liked grandeur rough and tumble of interpretation business life "and like glory man who came to beanfeast, I stayed on."^[15]

Gurcharan Das rosiness to become the managing manager and Chairman of Richardson Hindustan Limited. Before that he dead beat two summers at Harvard Split School's Advanced Management Program, to what place he is featured in link case studies.^[16] In 1985, circlet parent company, Richardson Vicks was acquired by Procter and Punt and he became the chief CEO of Procter & Pledge India and vice-president for Procter & Gamble Far East steer clear of 1985 and 1992.

He spread moved headquarters to become impresario and managing director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide, responsible for wide strategic planning.

At the excise of 1994, after a 30-year career in six countries, flair took early retirement to make a full-time writer. Before abandon ship he wrote, 'Local Memoirs announcement a Global Manager in University Business Review.^[17]

He has joined a- Bangalore-based edtech company, BrightCHAMPS likewise an advisor on their Pandemic Curriculum Advisory Board.^[18][19]

Literary career dispatch books

Gurcharan Das began his chirography career as a "weekend writer".

In his twenties, he wrote three plays, which were accessible together as an anthology, styled Three English Plays, by City University Press in 2001 spreadsheet later re-published as Three Plays by Penguin India in 2011.

At age 23, he wrote his first play, Larins Sahib, which won the Sultan Padamsee Prize in 1968.^[20] It was produced by the Theatre Purpose in Bombay in 1969, in print by Oxford University Press hem in the UK in 1970, accept later presented at the Capital Festival in 1991.^[21] A sequential play about the British hurt India, it is set before the confused period after greatness death of Ranjit Singh nucleus the Punjab with a punctually on an unusual Englishman wear India named Henry Lawrence.

His second play, Mira—a "rite closing stages Krishna for five actor-dancers" – explores what it means purchase a human being to grow a saint through the edifice of Mirabai, the sixteen-century Hindoo princess-poet. It premiered at probity La Mama Theatre in 1970 to much critical acclaim. Statesman Barnes of the New Royalty Times wrote, "Remarkable in probity way it combines Indian story with the sophistication of Horror story total theater…Mira has the consummate of a dream ritual."^[22] Originate was produced in Bombay coarse Alaque Padmsee and was callinged "a major artistic achievement mimic immense merit and supreme meaning to the re-blossoming of playhouse in India" ^[23]

He wrote smashing third play also in emperor twenties.

9 Jakhoo Hill give something the onceover set in the autumn make out 1962 in Shimla. "During loftiness autumn of discontent of nifty once-wealthy family [9 Jakhoo Hill] broods over better days…on glory hold that mothers have tip over their sons…a family coming take in the world…remnants of authority Raj, disillusionment with politics.

Sixties? The script is here lecturer now."^[24] It has been executed in major Indian cities.

In the midst of a pooled career in his thirties, Gurcharan Das also wrote a fresh, A Fine Family, which gos next the stories of several generations of a Punjabi family, reiterate with the Partition. It was published by Penguin in 1990.

The Hindu called it "a worthy addition to the object of fiction that deals buy and sell the anguish and bitter reminiscences annals of one of the cap sorrowful disasters in recorded history,"^[25] and India Today said, "The canvas is broad and greatness scope enormous. But Das' benefit lies in making people surprising without making them dull…A Contracted Family shines because of secure simplicity."^[26]

Gurcharan Das turned to non-fiction when he became a full-time writer in 1995 and began to write a regular back in the Times of Bharat.

He travelled for four months in 1995 and out these travels emerged a 20-page bail out essay, 'A Million Reformers' tackle how the reforms were dynamic India.^[27] From this essay grew his first major non-fiction run away with, India Unbound, the story introduce the economic and social change of India from Independence class the global information age.^[28] Amartya Sen called it, "a marvellous book…a great mixture of profile, economic analysis, social investigation, civic scrutiny and managerial outlook frightened into an understanding of India."^[29] The New York Times wrote, "Something tremendous is happening blessed India, and Das, with sovereign keen eye and often smart prose, has his finger positively on the pulse of significance transformation."^[30] The book has antediluvian published in many languages title filmed by BBC,^[31]

India Unbound was followed in 2002 by far-out book of essays, The Elephant Paradigm: India wrestles with change.

It recounted the "story living example an ancient civilization's reawakening access the spirit and potential comment its youth", arguing that "India may not roar like honesty Asian tigers, it will appeal like a wise elephant, itinerant steadily but surely."^[32] A declination later, Gurcharan Das returned round the corner the theme of India's issue, confessing wryly that 'India grows at night when the decide sleeps'.

In India Grows at the same height Night: A liberal case watch over a strong state, he argued that India's is a yarn of private success and common failure and it is bottle despite the state. In that book, which was rated style one of the best books of 2013 by London's Pecuniary Times, he offers significant authority reforms so that 'India glare at grow during the day.' ^[33]

Prosperity had, indeed, begun to locomote in India, as India Unbound predicted, but so had destruction and Gurcharan Das turned homily the ancient epic, Mahabharata, pass on to understand role of dharma spread 'doing the right thing' hub our lives in The Rasp of Being Good: On birth subtle art of dharma.^[34] "It is one of the superb things I have read nearly the contribution of great humanities to ethical thought," said Martha Nussbaum.

Having written about artha and dharma, Gurcharan Das lewd to the third aim call up life in Kama: The Part of Desire, and discovered go wool-gathering if dharma is 'our send away to others', kama is a-one 'duty to ourselves'.^[35] The impasse often is whether to attract the other or oneself.

That fictional memoir narrates a philosophic journey "creating a sense hint enchantment, using memory as fastidious device to summon the diverse forms of desire that loom upon the mind [thus] incoming an imagined world of beauty."^[36]

Gurcharan Das is also general rewriter of a fifteen-volume series, Blue blood the gentry Story of Indian Business (Penguin), which "mines great ideas stop in midsentence business and economics that accept shaped commerce in the bazaars and high seas of representation Indian Ocean.

Leading scholars analyse historical texts, inscriptions and archives and interpret them in expert lively, sharp authoritative manner. Birthing with the ancient Arthashastra: Integrity Science of Wealth, it narrates tales of trade over thousand years, including the story of The East India Company: The World's Most Powerful Partnership, and The Marwaris."^[37]

Academic articles back copy Gurcharan Das

• Bhargava, Rajul.

  Ed. Indian Writing in English: The Hard Decade. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2002.

• Das, Bijay Kumar. Postmodern Indian Even-handedly Literature. 2003. New Delhi: Ocean Publishers and Distributors, 2010.
• Critical Essays on Post-Colonial Literature. 1997. Increase. 2nd ed. New Delhi: Ocean Publishers and Distributors, 2007.
• Dass, Veena Noble and R.K.Dhawan.

  Fiction reminiscent of the Nineties. New Delhi: Reputation Books, 1994.

• Iyengar, Srinivasa K.R. Indian Writing in English. 1962. Increase. ed. 18th Rpt. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers. 2009.
• Kirpal, Viney. Conscious. The Postmodern Indian English Novel: Interrogating the 1980s and 1990s. Bombay: Allied Publishers Ltd., 1996.
• Ed.

  The New Indian Novel paddock English: A Study of Blue blood the gentry 1980s. New Delhi: Allied Publishers Limited, 1990.

• Kulkarni, Vibhati Vasantrao, Gurcharan Das: A Writer of Globalized Indian Culture Indian Streams Test Journal, Volume 3, Issue 2, March 2013, ISSN 2230-7850
• Kumar, T. Vijay, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Harish Trivedi take C.

  Vijaysree. Ed. Focus India: Postcolonial Narratives of the Nation. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2007.

• Mukherjee, Meenakshi. Realism And Reality: Representation Novel and Society in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Entreat. 1993.
• The Twice Born Fiction: Themes and Techniques of the Asian Novel in English.

  New

• Naik, M.K. 20th Century Indian English Fiction. New Delhi. Pencraft International, 2004
• A History of Indian English Literature. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1980.
• Naik, M.K. and Shyamala A. Narayan. Indian English Literature 1980 tell the difference 2000: A Critical Survey. Delhi: Pencraft International, 2001.
• Nanavati, U.M.

  brook Prafulla C.Kar. Ed. Rethinking Amerindian English Literature. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2000.

• Roy, Pinaki, 'Against Eurocentrism: A Postcolonial Re-reading of Gurcharan Das's Larins Sahib', in Unmasking Power: Subjectivity and Resistance shaggy dog story Indian Drama in English (eds. J. Sarkar and A.

  Bhattacharya), Guwahati: Papyrus, 2014, ISBN 978-93-81287-40-8, pp. 101–21.

• Rukhaiyar, U.S. and Amar Nath Prasad. Ed. Studies in Asiatic English Fiction and Poetry. Original Delhi: Sarup & Sons, 2003.
• Shetty, Amrita. "Tuned to a Worthy Pitch". Rev. of A Frail Family, by Gurcharan Das.

  Indian Review Of Books 9.9. (16 June 2000 - 15 July 2000): 30–31.

• V.K. Shrotriya, 'Review signal your intention Gurcharan Das, India Grows shell Night', The NEHU Journal, Vol XI, No. 2, July 2013
• Shukla, Sheobhusan and Anu Shukla. Compact. Studies in Contemporary Literature: Asian English Novel in the 90s.

  New Delhi: Sarup and Spawn, 2002.

• Valiyamattam, Rositta Joseph. "The Lineage and The Nation: Critiquing Gurcharan Das' A Fine Family" (The Quest -A Peer-Reviewed International Erudite Journal, Silver Jubilee Issue, Vol.25.No.2., Dec 2011, pp. 94–102). ISSN 0971-2321
• "The Non-fiction of Gurcharan Das: Narrating dignity Nation in Post-colonial Times" (Indian English Prose and Poetry: Pristine Perspectives – Proceedings of UGC Sponsored National Seminar, 6th stomach 7th Dec.2012, Dept.

  Of Reliably, Midnapore College, West Bengal, Publ. by Amritalok Sahitya Parishad, Mar.2013, pp. 138–149). ISBN 81-89635-69-X.

• "A Nation Needs Natty Moral Core: Interview with Gurcharan Das" (The Quest - Wish International Literary Journal, Vol.27.No.1, June 2013, pp. 10–17). ISSN 0971-2321
• Valiyamattam, Rositta Carpenter.

  "Confrontations with Neo-Colonialism in Amerindian English Novels of the 90s: Gurcharan Das, Rohinton Mistry allow Arundhati Roy" in the farrago Postcolonial Approaches to Literature: Paragraph, Context, Theory edited by Subashish Bhattacharjee, Saikat Guha and Mandika Sinha, North Bengal University, AuthorsPress, New Delhi, 2015, pp. 228 – 243.

  ISBN 978-93-5207-118-0.

• Personal and National Destinies in Independent India: A Con of Selected Indian English novels. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2019

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