Sunday, December 27, 2015

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer : An Essay

“Friends” and “enemy” has been since the time and it is not just in human nature or in human world, evidences are scattered all around the nature and ecosystem also.

Keeping the friends close and enemy closer provides an opportunity for critical improvement in thought, attitude, behavior and it only make us higher achiever. Arthashastra, written by Kautilya (Chanakya) oldest collective account of state-craft in the world; has insights of diplomacy based on keeping friends close and enemy closer. He suggested how king must keep an account of activities of enemy more than the friends. This certainly brings a competitive perfection in one’s preparation.