The Difficulty of being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma

Dharite iti dharma(what good thing you wear(follow) that is dharma(your religion))

The Difficulty of being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma

A book loosely based on Mahabharata,The Ambani brothers are like Duryodhan? Ramalingam Raju of Satyam infamy (India’s biggest corporate scandal) as Dhritashtra? No, these aren’t gimmicky comparisons, but come out of a fairly scholarly work by the well-known writer Gurcharan Das,One of my favorite columnist and journalist.It’s about Dharma and Adhrma in modern scenario .

In his previous work,India unbound,Das take on Artha(money) and examined it’s meaning in our own Indian scenario,now he examined the meaning of Dharma(why is to be good?).It addresses the central problem of how to live our lives in an examined way—holding a mirror up to us and forcing us to confront the many ways in which we deceive ourselves and others. What emerges is a doctrine of dharma that we can apply to our business decisions, political strategies and interpersonal relationships—in effect, to life itself.

Not only a great read but it give a mirror to check yourself .