Biography
“Something tremendous is happening in India, and Das, with his keen eye and often elegant prose, has his finger firmly on the pulse of the transformation.”
—The New York Times
Gurcharan Das is a world-renowned author, commentator, public intellectual and the former CEO of Procter & Gamble India. In 1995, after a 30-year career in six countries, he took an early retirement to become a full time writer, and speaker who, in addition to authoring a regular column for The Times of India is a popular contributor to The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and Newsweek.
Business Week described Das’ international bestseller, India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age, as “one of the most readable and insightful books to appear on India’s tortuous economic path in its 54 years since shaking off British rule.” Published in 2002, it is currently in 17 languages and the subject of a popular BBC documentary.
Das’ current bestseller, The Difficulty of Being Good, (which Professor David Schulman of Hebrew University describes as “a kind of miracle,”) is a riveting examination of moral failure, bad governance and corruption in our modern world. The Financial Times called it “a richly insightful meditation on the application of ancient philosophy to issues of modern moral conduct and right and wrong,” and Martha Nussbaum, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago proclaimed, “one of the best things I've read about the contribution of great literature to ethical thought.''
Gurcharan Das’ other literary works include the critically acclaimed novel, A Fine Family; a book of essays, The Elephant Paradigm; and an anthology, Three Plays.
A graduate with honors of Harvard University, and Harvard Business School’s Advance Management Program (where he’s featured in three HBS case studies,) Das is a member of the international advisory board of Wal-Mart, and of other Fortune 100 companies, and is a sought-after speaker and consultant to some of the world’s largest corporations.
A frequent commentator for CNN, BBC, and PBS (including a two-time guest of Charlie Rose,) Gurcharan Das is currently at work on his next book, The Dharma of Capitalism.
He lives in New Delhi.
