I find myself agreeing with many things Chanakya wrote (if these are taken broadly, not precisely: e.g. when he says that Ministers must be paid 800 times more than the lowest government functionary, I'm considering the broad recommendation to pay Ministers well, not the precise figure of 800). Policies on which I agree with Chanakya […]
Category: Economics
Chanakya: Pay your Ministers very heavily. But then hold them to account.
Instead of running about like headless chicken, Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal would do well to read Chanakya. In Chanakya they will find THE main solutions to the problems facing India. Without a corruption-free system, the Mauryan empire – which was the largest in Indian history and the largest (in relative terms) the world has […]
Chanakya would have been shocked at the quality of populist leaders democracy throws up
Chanakya was a firm believer in merit. His writings are designed to impart political and economic education for those who rule India. He is comprehensive and detailed, the Shakespeare of political and economic philosophy: a genius in whose work we find new meaning each time we read it (I must admit I was sceptical about […]
The Golden Bird (India) was created on the foundations of worldly knowledge
Chanakya wrote three books: Arthashastra, Chankya Niti and Chanakya Sutras. The last of these has proved fertile source material for a number of modern management books (e.g. Ashok Garde's). As part of my studies on Hindu Capitalism, I'm first compiling key original Sanskrit texts with the intention of double-checking references. (Btw, I find that although […]