Chanakya's view: understanding India in transition

A collection of articles by the best-selling author of Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduisms Greatest Thinker, Pavan K Varma, this book is a bold and brilliant effort at highlighting the beauty and the sad underbelly of India, which he concedes is one of the greatest civilizations of the world and a vibrant democracy. In Chanakyas View: Understanding India in Transition, Pavan uses a surgeons scalpel to denounce what ails India when it comes to understanding Hinduism; the growing intolerance towards other religions; the proclivity of turning violent in the first section of the book titled, This is Not India. In the second section called, Politics, Pavan K Varma forewarns his readers of political opportunism, even as he raises hope that India will survive for centuries. In the third section titled, Diplomacy, the ex-career diplomat, Pavan K Varma focuses on the loopholes in Indias foreign policies and what it shall take for India to retain its hegemony amongst its immediate neighbours; and in the final section called, Viewpoint, he pays glorious tributes to some of the greats in Indian history like the late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Khushwant Singh and Indira Gandhi. A rare collection of articles from one of Indias best-selling authors, Chanakyas View: Understanding India in Transition is both a glorious celebration of a great country, and a gentle reminder to save it from a disaster.