Gurcharan Das is an author
and public intellectual. He is the author of the international
bestseller, India Unbound, which has been published in many
countries and languages and filmed by the BBC. He writes a
regular column on Sundays for the Times of India and Dainik
Bhaskar and occasional guest columns for the Wall Street
Journal, Financial Times, and Time magazine.
Penguin has published his novel, A Fine Family, which is being
made into a film by Sham Benegal. Oxford University Press has
published his anthology, Three English Plays, consisting of
Larins Sahib, a prize-winning play about the British in India,
which has been produced in many cities, and presented at the
Edinburgh Festival. Mira, another play, was produced
off-Broadway to critical acclaim from New York critics and has
had long and successful runs in many cities around the world.
9 Jakhoo Hill has had a successful run in major Indian cities.
Penguin has recently published his book of essays called The
Elephant Paradigm.
Gurcharan Das graduated with honors from Harvard University in
Philosophy and Politics. He later attended Harvard Business
School (AMP), where he is featured in three case studies.
He was CEO of Procter & Gamble India and Vice President,
Procter & Gamble Far East between 1985-1992, and later Vice
President and Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide.
Prior to P&G, he was Chairman and Managing Director of
Richardson Hindustan Limited from 1981 to 1985, the company
where he started as a trainee. In 1995, after a 30-year career
in 6 countries, he took early retirement to become a full time
writer. He currently consults with a number of companies on
global corporate strategy, and is associated with a private
equity fund. He has served on the juries of the McKinsey award
for the best Harvard Review Article (2005) and $500,000 Milton
Friedman prize (2004). He has two children and lives with his
wife in New Delhi.