Gregory david roberts5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Roberts went ‘off-grid’ in 2014 to look after his sick parents and pursue a spiritual path of devotion. In the years that followed he became an in-demand public speaker and philosopher and received thousands of messages from readers saying the book had been “life changing”. He returned to Mumbai where he set up a personal initiative to assist the city's poor with lifesaving healthcare. When released, Roberts completed writing Shantaram and it was published in 2003 to critical acclaim. ![]() The time in solitary was to become a turning point in his life. Recaptured and extradited to Australia, he served out his sentence, which included two years in solitary confinement as a punishment for his escape. Here he established a free medical clinic for slum-dwellers and worked as a counterfeiter and smuggler for a branch of the South Bombay mafia. In 1978, Roberts was sentenced to 19 years in prison for armed robbery (with a plastic weapon), he escaped and spent eight years in Bombay as a fugitive. Gregory David Roberts (GDR) is an Australian artist, composer, songwriter, and author of Shantaram, its sequel, The Mountain Shadow, and The Spiritual Path.įollowing the breakdown of his marriage and the loss of custody of his daughter, he turned to heroin to numb the pain, and crime to feed his habit. ![]()
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