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Chanakya Knew Which Son Was the Good Son, and It Was Not the One Sending Money Home

The son your family brags aboutYou know exactly which one he is. His name comes up at every family gathering, usually within the first ten minutes. He is in Pune, or Bengaluru, or somewhere abroad. He sends money home every month. His parents' house has a new coat of paint.…

Times Life · Sep 19

Chanakya's Rules on Wages and Loyalty Still Work When You Employ Household Help

The Arthashastra Was Not Written for Kings AloneChanakya's core argument in the Arthashastra is that an employer who underpays a capable, loyal worker does not save money. He loses it, slowly, invisibly, and in ways that do not show up until the damage is done. The text was addressed to…

Times Life · Sep 17

What Ramanujan's Obsession and Intuition Teach About Breakthrough Thinking and Genius Habits

He Never Clocked OutRamanujan did his most significant work on a slate, wiping results as he went because paper was expensive. What survived went into notebooks. He wasn't working in sessions, he was always working. The boundary between eating, dreaming, and calculating didn't exist for him in the way it…

Times Life · Aug 6

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What Chanakya Wrote in the Arthashastra About Intelligence That Still Drives Competitive Business Research

The spy network Chanakya built before he built anything elseBefore Chandragupta Maurya had a throne, Chanakya had agents. The Arthashastra describes a classified intelligence apparatus, sattris (wandering monks), tikshnas (sharp agents posing as merchants), and rasadas (poison specialists who doubled as informants), deployed not during war but during peacetime. The…

Times Life · Aug 4

Why Your Anger and Frustration Almost Never Come From the Triggers You Think, The Psychology of Displaced Emotions

The Towel Was Never the ProblemChanakya wrote in the Arthashastra that a man who cannot govern his own mind will be governed by circumstances. He was describing kings, but the principle lands just as hard on a Tuesday evening when you're shouting about dishes.Here is what actually happens when you…

Times Life · Jul 22

3 Timeless Chanakya Secrets for Mind Mastery and Peace

Acharya Chanakya was an Indian philosopher who gifted us timeless wisdom about power, statehood, political relations and about life itself. Indeed, the advices and ideas of Chanakya helped the emperor Chandragupta in establishing the Maurya Empire in 320 BCE. Arthashastra and Chanakya Niti are two classic texts that cover most…

Times Life · Mar 16

7 Chanakya Niti Tricks to Destroy Someone’s Ego Without Saying a Word

Let’s start with something uncomfortable but true. Ego is rarely about confidence. It is usually insecurity wearing expensive clothes. In every era, there have been people who tried to dominate through loudness, status, or self-praise. And in every era, there were sharper minds who knew how to deal with them…

Times Life · Mar 2

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