Articles & Essays | Gurcharan Das

"Sleeping in the park is civilisation. First, you need a noisy city. Second, a green, calm spot in a great park"

—India Unbound

"Good intentions are useless without common sense."

—India Grows at Night

There are many articles & essays by Gurcharan Das, which have appeared over the years in anthologies edited by other authors. There are also forewords and introductions to books written by other authors. Given below is a selection. The reader is encouraged to search on the Internet for a specific item if not found here. Alas, there are no links provided. Sorry!

Who shall live? Who shall die? India faces Sophie’s Choice: our tragic dilemma is to choose between present lives and future lives

Times of India | Published: Mon, 04/20/2020 - 06:37

India is free, its schools are not – Reform must have two legs: Autonomy for private schools and quality for government schools

Times of India | Published: Fri, 02/07/2020 - 06:40

Finally, some good news!

Times of India | Published: Thu, 01/23/2020 - 06:43

Ten steps to $5 trillion: Lesson from RCEP fiasco is that India must execute bold reforms to become competitive

Times of India | Published: Wed, 12/04/2019 - 07:02

In search of a conservative Indian: We are drowned today by the shrill noises from Hindu nationalists and left secularists

Times of India | Published: Thu, 10/31/2019 - 07:04

Is Milton Friedman dead? Not quite. Individual social responsibility, not corporate social responsibility, must be the mantra

Times of India | Published: Thu, 09/05/2019 - 07:12

Contra Hindutva, Kashmiriyat: How consent works in a world of invented nations and fictional nationalisms

Times of India | Published: Wed, 08/28/2019 - 07:14

Stage: ‘Mira,’ La Mama's Indian Play

The New York Times | Published: Wed, 07/31/2019 - 07:27