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Philosophy Night: The Difficulty of Being Good

Mahabharata, London and the difficulty of being good

Network Capital
Aug 1, 2021
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We will come together to discuss the difficulty of being good. The ancient Indian text Mahabharata is largely about the battle of good and evil. Let's come together to understand its nuances.

Part 1: #6 Business Sutra and Dharmashastra Lessons From Mahabharata for  Every Entrepreneur

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After taking early retirement from a career as the chief executive of Proctor & Gamble India, Gurcharan Das went to Chicago to study Sanskrit under the two great American scholars of the “language of the gods”, Sheldon Pollock and Wendy Doniger, and The Difficulty of Being Good represents an attempt by Das to bring together the two sides of his life, the literary and the practical. The result is a highly personal and idiosyncratic, yet richly insightful meditation on the application of ancient philosophy to issues of modern moral conduct and right and wrong. Das is especially focused on his native India, which today is mired in corruption, with one out of every five members of parliament having had criminal charges levelled against him: “Moral failure pervades our public life and hangs over it like Delhi’s smog.”

Read more here: https://www.ft.com/content/606cdfb8-c76a-11df-aeb1-00144feab49a

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