Book Review Title: The Difficulty of Being Good Author: Gurcharan Das Publisher: Penguin India, 2012 The Mahabharata is an epic that can be interpreted in numerous ways. As Gurcharan Das says, “It is a cosmic allegory of the eternal struggle between good and evil on one plane. At another level, it is about an all-too-human fight between the cousins of a royal family, which leads to a war and ends tragically in the death of almost everyone. At a third level – and this is primarily the subject of my book – it is about the crisis of conscience of some of its characters.” Das spent six years studying the epic, having taken an “academic holiday” from his successful career as a writer. Before turning to fulltime writing, Das worked with multinational companies. The prevalence of evil in the world of human beings set Das on a kind of spiritual quest. The Difficulty of Being Good was the outcome. The book is an intellectual, spiritual, moral, philosophi
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