Gurcharan Das is an author and public intellectual, known for a much-acclaimed trilogy on the classical Indian goals of life. India Unbound was the first, on artha or ‘material well-being’. The book offers a personal account of India’s recent economic rise. The second, The Difficulty of Being Good, on dharma, ‘moral well-being’, illuminates our day-to-day moral dilemmas through a meditation on the epic, Mahabharata. Kama: The Riddle of Desire, on the third Goal, teaches how to cherish desire in order to live a rich, flourishing life. His other books include India Grows at Night: A Liberal Case for a Strong State, which was on the FT’s best books for 2013; a novel, A Fine Family; a book of essays, The Elephant Paradigm and an anthology, Three Plays. He is editing for Penguin a 15 volume history series, The Story of Indian Business. Mr. Das graduated in philosophy with honors (phi beta kappa) from Harvard University and later attended Harvard Business School (AMP). He was CEO of Procter & Gamble India and Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide before he quit to become a full-time writer.

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