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“gurcharan das”

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    Kama: The Riddle of Desire

    by Gurcharan Das ...
    Narrated by Rajiv Dadiya ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 10 min

    A riveting account of love and desireIndia is the only civilization to elevate kama-desire and pleasure-to a goal of life. Kama is both cosmic and human energy, which animates life and holds it in place. Gurcharan Das weaves a compelling narrative soaked in philosophical, historical and literary ideas in the third volume of his trilogy on life's goals: India Unbound was the first, on artha, ... Read more

    $30.00 CAD

  • India Unbound

    by Gurcharan Das ...
    India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation’s rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history of India from independence to the new millennium.Das shows how India’s policies after 1947 ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    India Grows At Night

    A Liberal Case For A strong State

    by Gurcharan Das ...
    Narrated by Suyash Mohan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 46 min

    India's is a tale of private success and public failure. Prosperity is, indeed, spreading across the country even as governance failure pervades public life. But how could a nation become one of the world's fastest-growing economies when it's governed by a weak, ineffective state? And wouldn't it be wonderful if India also grew during the day-in other words, if public policy supported private ... Read more

    $22.50 CAD

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    Fine Family

    by Gurcharan Das ...
    Narrated by Suyash Mohan ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 22 min

    This majestic novel by the author of India Unbound is the extraordinary chronicle, rich in passion and incident, of a Punjabi family that is uprooted from its settled existence in Lyallpur by the violence of Partition and forced to flee to India. Everything is lost in the transition, but when a son is born into the family, hopes revive of rebuilding the family's fortunes, the efforts towards which ... Read more

    $22.50 CAD

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    The Dharma of Business

    by Donald R. Davis Jr. ...
    Narrated by Terence D'Souza ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 45 min

    "Business law in medieval and early modern India developed within thevoluminous and multifaceted texts called the Dharmashastras. These texts laiddown rules for merchants, traders, guilds, farmers and individuals in terms ofthe complex religious, legal and moral ideal of dharma.This exciting book provides a new perspective on commercial law in this period.In addition to a description of the ... Read more

    $22.50 CAD

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