Daily Archive: September 24, 2008

Excerpts from “Art of War”

Excerpts from a review of Arun Shourie’s “Are we deceiving ourselves again?” by Brahma Chellaney: …having forsaken the Kautilyan principles, has proven no match to China’s Sun Tzu-style statecraft. From Nehru’s grudging acceptance of...

Are politicians irrelevant in the post-modern era?

In a recent TIME magazine article, Michael Elliott suggested that Japan’s experience may be a clue to a post-modern era in which “…politics, something that we have assumed for 200 years was the wellspring...