His partially autobiographical novel, A Fine Family, sheds some light on his early life. His father was a passionate mystic and meditated for many hours a day and the boy was raised in an atmosphere charged with Bhakti mysticism. They arrived as refugees in Shimla, and this is where the young boy grew up. The family lived in Lahore at the time of the partition of India in August 1947 when they had to flee for their lives. His father was an engineer with the government of Punjab. Gurcharan Das was born in Lyallpur, British India (now Faisalabad, Pakistan). JSTOR ( December 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Aside from the trilogy, his other literary works include a novel, A Fine Family, two book length essays, India Grows at Nights: A Liberal Case for a Strong State, The Elephant Paradigm, and an anthology, Three English Plays. He also contributes periodically to Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. He is a regular columnist for The Times of India and five Indian language newspapers in Hindi, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, and Gujarati. At age 50, he took early retirement to become a full-time writer. He was CEO of Procter & Gamble India and later managing director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide (Strategic Planning). He had later attended Harvard Business School (AMP), where he is featured in three case studies. Gurcharan Das graduated with honours from Harvard University in Philosophy. Kama: The Riddle of Desire is on the third goal of desire, and recounts a tale of "love and vulnerability, about self-doubt and betrayal, about wanting more of everything and being haunted by settling for less."
The second, The Difficulty of Being Good, is on dharma or 'moral well-being', and is "rich with learned musings on the epic, Mahabharata and its moral dilemmas" that speak to our day to day contemporary life. Published in many languages and filmed by BBC, it was called "a quiet earthquake" by the Guardian.
India Unbound was the first volume (2002), on artha, 'material well-being', which narrated the story of India's economic rise from Independence to the global information age. Gurcharan Das (born 3 October 1943) is an Indian author, who wrote a trilogy based on the classical Indian goals of the ideal life.
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