The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay is organising Inaugural Shashwat Panda Memorial Lecture by Pureheart Capital on February 13, 2020. The details of the lecture are given below:

Title: “Making a living versus Making a life”

Speaker: Mr. Gurcharan Das, Author, Commentator, and Public Intellectual

About the Speaker: Mr. Gurcharan Das is an author, management guru and public intellectual, known for a much-acclaimed trilogy on the classical Indian ideal of life’s goals. India Unbound was the first, on artha or ‘material well-being’—it offers a personal account of India’s recent economic rise and is available in 19 languages and filmed by the BBC.; the second, The Difficulty of Being Good, on dharma, ‘moral well-being’, illuminates our day to day moral dilemmas through a meditation on the epic, Mahabharata; Kama: The Riddle of Desire, on the third goal, teaches how to cherish desire in order to live a rich, flourishing life.

Mr. Das graduated in philosophy with honors (phi beta kappa) from Harvard University and later attended Harvard Business School (AMP) where he is featured in three case studies. He was CEO of Procter & Gamble India and Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide (Strategic Planning). At 50, he took early retirement to become a full-time writer. He writes a regular column for the Times of India and five Indian language papers, and contributes to Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs. He is a speaker to some of the world’s largest corporations. His other books include India Grows at Night: A liberal case for a strong state, which was on the FT’s best books for 2013; a novel, A Fine Family; a book of essays, The Elephant Paradigm, and an anthology, Three Plays. He is editing for Penguin a 15 volume history series, The Story ofIndian Business. He lives in Delhi.