{"id":109151,"date":"2026-01-17T14:16:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=109151"},"modified":"2026-01-17T14:16:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:46:57","slug":"gurcharan-das-noted-corporate-guru-and-author-to-speak-at-icg-on-jan-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=109151","title":{"rendered":"Gurcharan Das, noted corporate guru and author to speak at ICG on Jan 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Goa Khabar<\/b><strong> : Gurcharan Das, noted corporate guru and author will be speaking at the International Centre Goa (ICG) on Saturday, January 24 at 6pm. Das will be speaking on the topic: \u201cHave we learned the wrong lessons from history?\u201d as part of the ICG Public Lectures series. This event is open and free to the public.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Das\u2019 talk will delve on how India, despite a vibrant trading past, which made it one of the world\u2019s richest countries, has not yet realised its full potential. According to Das, India\u2019s past success had been based on keeping its economy open. After Independence, Das points out that the new India, closed its doors, believing wrongly that trade had impoverished her. \u201cThis mistaken lesson from history has dogged the nation, preventing it from realizing its potential. Today, India has failed to create an industrial revolution and is plagued with a serious unemployment problem,\u201d Das said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Das is a distinguished author, commentator and former chief executive officer of Procter &amp; Gamble India. An alumnus of the Harvard University, Das is one of India\u2019s most celebrated authors and thinkers, best known for two iconic, bestsellers: \u201cThe Difficulty of Being Good\u201d and \u201cIndia Unbound\u201d, which have shaped public discourse on India\u2019s economic and social transformation. His newspaper columns are among the most widely read in India. He is also the general editor for Penguin\u2019s 17-volume, \u201cStory of Indian<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Business\u201d series on which this lecture is based.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those wishing to attend the lecture are requested to RSVP\u00a0 +91 92844 75746.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa Khabar : Gurcharan Das, noted corporate guru and author will be speaking at the International Centre Goa (ICG) on Saturday, January 24 at 6pm. Das will be speaking on the topic: \u201cHave we learned the wrong lessons from history?\u201d as part of the ICG Public Lectures series. This event is open and free to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":109152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,155],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-109151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6","category-155","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109153,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109151\/revisions\/109153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}