On Wednesday 14 Mar 2012 12:40:47 pm Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:58 AM, ss <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you have any recommendation for books by Henry Kissinger by the way? > > Not really, I only have a book of his memoirs on the Vietnam War that > I never was able to finish, but how about some by Noam Chomsky? Or > perhaps Howard Zinn? BTW, knowing Aanjhan off list as well I am pretty > sure he was not entirely in the dark about the works of Chanakya.
I am just curious as to why you wanted to know what anyone might gain from Chanakya when you do not show any curiousity about why anyone might want to read Kissinger. Kissinger writes about statecraft and realpolitik. Some of it is good. Some of it is rubbish. Noam Chomsky is a different ball game. Noam Chomsky is honest which would make him unsuitable for statecraft. Kissinger had all that one needs for statecraft, guile, dishonesty, no concerns about what he does not know and delusions of grandeur. shiv
