In his celebrated treatise, the Kautilya Arthashastra, Chanakya has delved at length on why and how a conqueror should go to war. “To neutralise the enemy-in-the-rear, to help an ally or to subdue a small state, and the ultimate objective is to destroy the natural enemy who is an obstacle to the conqueror’s ambition,” he says. Cut to the present, if Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the conqueror with an […]