Once you make the fateful decision to go to war, you must win at any cost
Gurcharan Das | Friday,November 25,2016After Karna’s Death, the great war of Mahabharata comes to a quick close. Almost all the great warriors on the Kaurava side are gone.
Good persons, who can only win a war by unfair means
Gurcharan Das | Monday,October 10,2016In Mahabharata, Krishna firmly believes that once you make the fateful decision to go to war, then you must win at any cost.
Who is Krishna, man or God?
Gurcharan Das | Saturday,October 8,2016One must accept both sides of Krishna, no matter how paradoxical or contrary
Sometimes Krishna is human, at other times he is God
Gurcharan Das | Thursday,August 25,2016Some Scholars believe Krishna was a Kuladevata, an ethnic and family god of a confederation of Rajput clans. He was also probably a “Patron God of the Pandavas”
How the greatest upholder of dharma achieved success by telling a lie
Gurcharan Das | Monday,August 22,2016Once the peace negotiations fail and preparations for the war begin, the epic Mahabharata lays down elaborate rules of warfare in Bhishmaparvan. Lest anyone forget, it repeats them several times.
What is “liberty” for America and “equality” for France, It's “Dharma” for India
Gurcharan Das | Monday,August 22,2016Dharma’s world of moral haziness and uncertainty is far closer to our experience as ordinary human beings than the narrow and rigid positions that define debate in these post-9/11 fundamentalist times.
What Dharma has to do with the Market? Well, everything!
Gurcharan Das | Monday,August 22,2016The idea that an ancient Indian concept might offer insight into the nature of markets is, on the face of it, bizarre.
Dharma and Morality of the Market
Gurcharan Das | Monday,August 22,2016Dharma places restraints on buyers and sellers. Because you are a person of dharma, I readily accept a check from you.
How India remained the eternal “Soft” power : from exporting goods to ideas
Gurcharan Das | Monday,August 22,2016India’s power has always been ‘soft’, not expressed through military conquest, but in the export of goods and ideas.
The king should never forget what “Arthshastra” tells of “Rajdharma”
Gurcharan Das | Monday,August 22,2016India experienced a ‘golden decade’ of growth from 2002 to 2012 when GDP growth averaged over eight percent a year.