In conversation with Salman Khurshid: Former managing director of Proctor & Gamble Gurcharan Das
Published 2 Jun, 2026 06:27 | Updated 2 Jun, 2026 14:02Gurcharan Das, author, columnist and the former managing director of Proctor & Gamble (worldwide), joins Salman Khurshid for the latest episode of In Conversation with Salman Khurshid. He’s a real partition child, born in Pakistan but having to move to Delhi after partition. He still vividly remembers the violence and bloodshed he saw while moving from one country to another and since then he has always been suspicious of religion entering into public space. He says the course of his life and career changed from engineering to liberal sciences after he discovered Russian literature. He considers himself neither a leftist nor a right-winger, he’s in the middle and according to him it’s a lonely place to be.