15 Facts About Gurcharan Das

Gurcharan Das was born on 3 October 1943 and is an Indian author who wrote a trilogy based on the classical Indian goals of the ideal life.

Gurcharan Das had later attended Harvard Business School, where he is featured in three case studies.

Gurcharan Das contributes periodically to Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.

Gurcharan Das was born in Lyallpur, British India.

Gurcharan Das's father was an engineer with the government of Punjab.

Gurcharan Das's father was a passionate mystic and meditated for many hours a day and the boy was raised in an atmosphere charged with Bhakti mysticism.

Gurcharan Das went to high school in Washington DC In 1959, he won a scholarship to Harvard University.

Gurcharan Das graduated from Harvard in 1963 with honours in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.

Gurcharan Das wrote his senior thesis under the political philosopher, John Rawls, who had a great influence on his life.

Gurcharan Das rose to become the managing director and Chairman of Richardson Hindustan Limited.

Gurcharan Das has joined a Bangalore-based edtech company, BrightCHAMPS as an advisor on their Global Curriculum Advisory Board.

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

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

Gurcharan Das travelled for four months in 1995 and out these travels emerged a 20-page cover essay, 'A Million Reformers' about how the reforms were changing India.

Prosperity had, indeed, begun to spread in India, as India Unbound predicted, but so had corruption and Gurcharan Das turned to the ancient epic, Mahabharata, to understand role of dharma or 'doing the right thing' in our lives in The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of dharma.