The difficulty of being good: on the subtle art of dharma / Gurcharan Das
By: Das, Gurcharan.
Material type: BookPublisher: New Delhi : Penguin Books, 2010Description: lii, 488p. 24 cm.ISBN: 9780199754410.Subject(s): Mahābhārata -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Mahābhārata -- Characters | Dharma | Mahabharata - commentaryDDC classification: 294.5923047Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | Nehru Centre Library | General Collection | 294.5923047/Das (Browse shelf) | Available | 14433 |
Originally published: New Delhi : Allen Lane ; New York : Penguin Group (USA), 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-328) and index.
Prelude: I take an academic holiday -- Duryodhana's envy: "what man of mettle will stand to see his rivals prosper and himself decline" -- Draupadi's courage: "who did you lose first, yourself or me?" -- Yudhisthira's duty: "I act because I must" -- Arjuna's despair: "there are no victors in war" -- Bhishma's selflessness: "be intent on the act, not its fruits" -- Karna's status anxiety: "how could a doe give birth to this tiger?" -- Krishna's guile: "that is the way it is!" -- Aswatthama's revenge: "now I feel the whirligig of time" -- Yudhisthira's remorse: "this victory looks more like defeat to me" -- Mahabharata's dharma: "great king, you weep with all creatures" -- Conclusion: the difficulty of being good -- Appendix: dharma, the story of a word -- A short bibliographic essay.
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