Publish Date
12 Sep, 2025
About This Book
‘I became a liberal because I believed in the virtues of openness, mutual respect, and a concern for others. Liberalism offered me an ethically responsible order of human progress without necessarily involving the state.’ Gurcharan Das has been a lifelong and passionate champion of both economic and political freedom. ‘For over two centuries,’ he writes, ‘liberal democracies and free markets spread around the world to become the only sensible way to organize public life.’ After years of the stifling ‘license raj’, he watched and celebrated India’s long-delayed move towards a liberal order in the 1990s, as market reform and a maturing democratic process began to yield remarkable results, bringing prosperity and dignity to the many millions who had been denied both for decades. He recorded this progress in his classic study, India Unbound. But after three decades, that light seems to be fading. As in the rest of the world, liberalism is in retreat in India as well. Society is hopelessly
About The Author
Gurcharan Das is one of India’s most admired and celebrated authors and thinkers. Among his best-selling and iconic books are India Unbound: From Independence to the Global Information Age, The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma, Kama: The Riddle of Desire and Another Sort of Freedom. He is also general editor of a fifteen-volume series, The Story of Indian Business. His newspaper columns on current issues and philosophy are among the most widely read in the country.
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