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Topic: Gurcharan Das

A New York publisher is making an AI Bhagavad Gita—with Gurcharan Das as storyteller

The Gita is no longer a static book; it’s being rendered alive. The next move for the publishing company is going to be 'an interactive Bible'.

There’s good & bad nationalism. One cherishes power, the other the nation

In ‘The Dilemma of an Indian Liberal’, Gurcharan Das recounts his own personal and intellectual journey to elucidate the struggles of being liberal in India.

‘You can be a respectable Hindu and still an atheist,’ says author Gurcharan Das

Das talks about why he believes Indians never fully embraced the idea of constitutional morality and whether there is space for atheism under the umbrella of Hinduism.

When Licence Raj went after Vicks Vaporub in India’s peak flu season

In 'Another Sort of Freedom', Gurcharan Das says that one must squarely blame Indira Gandhi for not changing course when Japan, Korea and Taiwan had already shown the way.

Markets, memoir, moksha — Gurcharan Das traces India Story from Licence Raj to liberal ’90s

The freewheeling conversation between Das and William Dalrymple moved from Partition, Manmohan Singh, Mahabharata, and Margaret Thatcher to AI seamlessly.

Off The Cuff with Jaithirth Rao & Gurcharan Das

In this edition of #ThePrintOTC, entrepreneur and writer Jaithirth Rao speaks to Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta and commentator Gurcharan Das about Rao's new book, 'Economist...

Sanjaya Baru on ‘precarious’ foreign relations, Gurcharan Das says don’t worry, be happy

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Gurcharan Das’ search for a conservative Indian & Ashok Malik on ‘Jal’ power

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Is sex more important than friendship in marriage?

Public intellectual Gurcharan Das writes about how dwindling desire in marriage can give way to another kind of love. 

On Camera

Severe Hyderabad internet outages make it an IT hub without the IT part

Many offices in Telangana have asked their employees to work from home because of heavy rainfall, but it has become impossible due to the internet outages.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

CDS on differences on theaterisation—views welcome, final call to be in nation’s best interests

The Navy has always been on board with the theaterisation plan, but the Air Force feels splitting up air assets into several theatre commands is futile & will tie up critical systems.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.