Summary:
The epic strategist from the 340 BC known to us all as Chanakya is a subject that is engaging to many of us, just for his sheer expertise in planning and devising plots and schemes that makes success not a target but a part of the process. Chanakya's Chants is such a book that is as intriguing as it is enlightening. The book runs two parallel stories based on the theme of vengeance. Chanakya, who, to avenge his father's death by the then King of Magadh, Dhananda made a young kid Chandragupta Maurya along with his friends capable of becoming the governing authorities of the kingdom to be. The details on how Chanakya managed to make Chandragupta Maurya, the legendary ruler he is known as today, the world over.
The other story deals with Pandit Gangasagar a disciple of Chanakya, who decides to incorporate Chanakya's ways of working in the present world scenarios. Pandit Gangasagar is driven by his will to make his protée a Prime Minister of the country he wants to rescue from drowning in the muck of politics. He incorporates the ways of his inspiration, Chanakya, the alma mater of politics. The book draws your attention to the degrees of covertness that encompasses the dealings of an authority or an administration.
Review:
The plot is very clear in construction and description, the author, Ashwin Sanghi's drive to correlate two stories separated in time, both having the teachings of Chanakya as the centre is the crux of the book. The author feels the helplessness of the country marred by the present age politics and makes a valid point that these demons of the present are counterfeits of the ones from the past. He reinvigorates the perennial wisdom of the man renowned as the greatest thinker ever born. Chanakya's philosophies are timeless as you would figure out if you choose to read the book.
The link between the story from the present of Chandini Gupta and Chandragupta Maurya from the past is lively and seamless. The book hasn't become the national bestseller just like that; it contains material that touches the very depths of human mind through reasoning and through logic. You can incorporate many of Chanakya's teachings in your daily life to optimize your performance in life in general. This book is backed by the extraordinary research on Chanakya's teachings the author has put in and also how it stands the test of time. The story makes the implications of Chanakya's method in the present look a bit more exaggerated and stretched, especially as the character filling in on Chanakya's shoes does some hard to believe things.
Chanakya's Chants has a plethora of information that can leave you saturated with slyness or overwhelmed with the power of mind of the man who single handedly changed the course of proceedings of how a region would be ruled.
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