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  • Chanakya

    Chanakya was not gifted with beauty or looks, however, he was gifted with intelligence, creativity and statesmanship. He is the best administrator to be born to date. The greatest strategist of his time, his hard labour, perseverance and guidance bore fruit to Chandra Gupta Maurya and who became the Emperor of the great Maurya Empire. Chanakya served as his Prime minister and he is still Known For his great wisdom, far -sightedness, power of persuasion, manipulation and spreading dissension. Chanakya Neeti is a treatise on the ideal way of life, and shows Chanakya's in depth study of the Indian way of life.'Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon...read more

  • Kautilya Chanakya

    Truly radical 'Machiavellianism', in the popular sense of that word, is classically expressed in Indian literature in the Arthashastra of Kautilya (written long before the birth of Christ, ostensibly in the time of Chandragupta): compared to it, Machiavelli's The Prince is harmless. — Max Weber, Politics as a Vocation (1919) Chanakya's treatise, written while turning a farmhand into the emperor of the largest empire India had ever seen, focuses on how to manage an empire, covering everything from domestic policy and personal rights to assassination and the dirtier arts of politics. This is not, as with Plato’s Republic, a work of theory. Chanakya’s guidance is entirely...read more