Category: Non-fiction
Publisher (English): Penguin Books India
Rights available: Indian languages (excluding Hindi, Tamil and Marathi)
This book turns to the Sanskrit epic, Mahabharata, in order to answer the question, ‘Why be good?’ and it discovers that the epic’s world of moral haziness and uncertainty is closer to our experience as ordinary human beings rather than the narrow and rigid positions that define most debate and discussion today after 9/11.
This book dwells on the goal of dharma, moral well-being. It addresses the central problem of how to live our lives in an examined way – holding a mirror to us and forcing us to confront the
many ways in which we deceive ourselves; how we are false to others; and how we oppress fellow human beings. As he addresses the central problem of how to live our lives in an examined way, what emerges is a doctrine of dharma – in essence, doing the right thing that we can apply to our business decisions, political strategies and interpersonal relationships: in effect, to life itself.
