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Why is India giving the cold shoulder to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau? That’s been the political discourse the past week. As diplomatic visits go, this has not been a happy one. But then, as journalist Seema Sirohi writes in her review of Aparna Pande’s From Chanakya to Modi, “Different prime ministers have pursued different iterations of non-alignment over time, sometimes riding the waves and sometimes drowning in pointless diatribes.”
There’s no question that Chanakya’s Arthashastra, the ancient treatise on statecraft and economic policy, continues to inspire even today, with precise rules laid out for both domestic and foreign affairs.
