The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma (Record no. 60472)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9780143418979 |
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| Classification number | 294.5923 |
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| Personal name | Gurcharan Das |
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| Title | The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Penguin Books India (P) Ltd. |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2012 |
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| Extent | 434p |
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| General note | 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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| Personal name | Dharma |
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