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The very fact that Chanakya made his arguments about statecraft, power and governance, without a reference to religion or divinity, makes him a true political scientist as well as the founder/father of political science. Chanakya (also referred to as Kautilya), who preceded Niccolò Machiavelli by more than a millennium, should be seen as the world's original political realist. It has been all too easy to borrow political terminology from the West. There is a need for a rising India to create a strategic vocabulary - one which is her very own. As it becomes more consequential for world politics in the twenty-first century, India would do well to revisit her own realist tradition so solidly reflected in the " Ramayana ," the " Mahabharata ," the " Panchatantra ," the " Arthashastra ," the "Nitishastra," the "Shukra-Niti," the "Niti-Shataka," and the "Brihaspati Samhita" of "Garuda Purana," among others. For historians and political scientists, the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday has taken on a whole new meaning with the election of the first African American President, and Lincoln’s eloquent words will be featured, perhaps more than ever before. this Yug Purush.įor scientists, Darwin’s 200th birthday anniversary is an opportunity to reflect on how far knowledge about our natural world has come since the publication of the " On the Origin of Species ," and to examine the future direction of biology and other disciplines. " to know more about the life and times of this great polymath, this visionary. " and " Chanakya, the 'Yug Purush' and the Chanakya legend. Please read my blogs: " The Genius of Chanakya, the Man of Destiny. Shamashastri of Mysore discovered a manuscript of the "Arthashastra" in 1904, then edited and published it to great acclaim in 1909. Kautilya's long forgotten wisdom from the 3rd and 4th century B.C. On the other hand, we have succeeded in completely overlooking another important occasion - the 100th anniversary of the publication of the " Arthashastra ," - (written in the period 321 - 296 B.C.) - the ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economic policy and military strategy, authored by the the world's original political realist, Chanakya (also known as Kautilya).
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Chanakya amar chitra katha series#
A series of events (especially in the US, in the UK and other parts of Europe) will take this opportunity to reflect on both Darwin's and Lincoln's roles in the history of ideas and to celebrate their lives.
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This year's also the 150th anniversary of the publication of the famed naturalist's most important work, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ," a book that revolutionized the science of biology, and despite enormous amounts of evidence in its favour remains controversial to this day. Special events marking the occasion are planned throughout the world especially in England where Darwin was born on February 12th in 1809 (coincidentally, Lincoln too was born on the same day). As the war was drawing to a close, Lincoln became the first American President to be assassinated. This year (year 2009 or more precisely on February 12th, 2009) we commemorated the bicentennial or the 200th anniversary of the birth of two historic figures, whose ideas and actions shaped the modern world - the evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin and President Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States (US), who successfully led the US through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. Every year we celebrate or commemorate some or the other occasion and I am not merely referring to festivals.