Liberalism has created large inequalities The inherent cosmopolitanism of liberalism has led to the erosion of national identities The unrestricted immigration fostered by liberalism has brought several Western countries to the brink of break down The maladies of liberalism has produced reaction in the form of right wing populism that threatens to turnover the entire liberal applecart It has now become clear that liberalism works well only in societies which are fairly homogenous and which share an ethical consensus Gurcharan Das gives a theoretical over view of liberalism and analyses the progress and problems of liberalism in India For those who have read his autobiography.

Gurcharan Das Punjabi Hindi born October 3 1943 is an Indian author commentator and public intellectual He is the author of The Difficulty of Being Good On the subtle art of dharma which interrogates the epic Mahabharata His international bestseller India Unbound is a narrative account of India from Independence to the global Information Age and has been published in many languages and filmed by BBC. He is a regular columnist for six Indian newspapers in English Hindi Telugu and Marathi and he writes periodic pieces for the New York Times Wall Street Journal Financial Times Foreign Affairs and Newsweek. He graduated with honors from Harvard University in Philosophy He later attended Harvard Busi Gurcharan Das Punjabi Hindi born October 3 1943 is an Indian author commentator and public intellectual He is the author of The Difficulty of Being Good On the subtle art of dharma which interrogates the epic Mahabharata His international bestseller India Unbound is a narrative account of India from Independence to the global Information Age and has been published in many languages and filmed by BBC. He is a regular columnist for six Indian newspapers in English Hindi Telugu and Marathi and he writes periodic pieces for the New York Times Wall Street Journal Financial Times Foreign Affairs and Newsweek. He graduated with honors from Harvard University in Philosophy He later attended Harvard Business School AMP where he is featured in three case studies He was CEO of Procter Gamble India and later Managing Director Procter Gamble Worldwide Strategic Planning In 1995 he took early retirement to become a full time writer He is currently on many boards and is a regular speaker to the top managements of the world s largest corporations. His other literary works include a novel A Fine Family a book of essays The Elephant Paradigm and anthology Three English Plays site_link I became a liberal because I believed in the virtues of openness mutual respect and aconcern for others Liberalism offered me an ethically responsible order of human progresswithout necessarily involving the state Gurcharan Das has been a lifelong and passionate champion of both economicand political freedom For over two centuries he writes liberal democraciesand free markets spread around the world to become the only sensible wayto organize public life After years of the stifling license raj he watched andcelebrated India s long delayed move towards a liberal order in the 1990s asmarket reform and a maturing democratic process began to yield remarkableresults bringing prosperity and dignity to the many millions who had beendenied both for decades He recorded this progress in his classic study IndiaUnbound But after three decades that light seems to be fading As in the rest ofthe world liberalism is in retreat in India as well Society is hopelessly polarizedand populists are on the march The debate appears to be about economicfreedom versus political freedom as if it is a given that the two cannot coexist. While telling his story he also narrates the story of a nation struggling still to become a successful liberal democracy the late promise and its seemingbetrayal but also the possibility of course correction. Written with conviction insight and scholarship and with immense clarity this is an urgent and illuminating book It is a book that every Indian invested inthe future of the country should read The Dilemma of an Indian LiberalWhat a lovely book And what a great author Love his writing Nonfiction Biographies Memoirs Business Liberalism is a philosophy that seeks to protect the liberty of the individual It sees no role for the state except that of a night watchman Liberalism assumes that invisible hand of the market will regulate the economic sphere without the intervention of the state Liberalism has no commitment to any ultimate values Priority of the right over the good in technical language In the absence of a shared moral consensus society slips into moral anarchy The extreme wokism we see in the West is a direct result of the moral vacuum created by the Liberal philosophy In the economic arena there is nothing new Nonfiction Biographies Memoirs Business I completed this book in 2 days because it hooked me up from the very first page itself I will recommend everyone to read this book as it highlights the problem faced by the liberals in the contemporary times Nonfiction Biographies Memoirs Business It is a good book Short read summarising what liberalism means and what journey an Indian liberal has undertaken This is Gurcharan Das s own personal journey but there is a lot to relate to. I agreed with most of what he said and did not agree with a few things Striking off one because a few sentences were repeated multiple times and because I was put off by him trying to justify communalism in the name of economic growth Nonfiction Biographies Memoirs Business Liberalism is against tribalism and nationalism is a form of tribalism the author elaborately narrates the difficulties of staying a liberal in this age of ultra nationalism. In order to elucidate the dilemma of the Indian liberal Gurcharan Das recountshis own professional and intellectual how and why he became a liberal. a good read to understand the concept and applicability of liberalism.The liberal today is on a lonely road. Nonfiction Biographies Memoirs Business