चाणक्य Chanakya

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• Amb. Shivshankar Menon, National Security Advisor - Kautilya Today, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, 2012-10-21. India’s then National Security Adviser on why Kautilya still matters. Given at the IDSA workshop Kautilya Today in October 2012.
• The Kautilyan Concepts of the Circle of States and the Six-Fold Policy of Inter-State Relation, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, 2012-10-23. Historian Ranabir Chakravarti of JNU explains the mandala or circle of states and the six measures of foreign policy in the Arthashastra.
• Wide Angle on "Kautilya and his relevance today" (Part-2), DD News, 2014-04-14. C Raja Mohan hosts Kalyan Raman of IDSA and Medha Bisht of South Asian University and H Vishvanathan of ORF on Kautilya’s relevance today.
• Strategic Partnerships in Kauṭilyan Foreign Policy -- Dr Mark McClish, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, 2014-04-22. Mark McClish on how the Arthashastra thinks about allies and strategic partnerships. From the IDSA International Seminar on Kautilya.
• The Kautilya–Arthashastra and Core Concepts of Intelligence Analysis by Mr Michael Liebig | 2014, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, 2014-04-22. Michael Liebig of Goethe University Frankfurt reads the Arthashastra as an early manual of intelligence analysis.
• "Outwitting" (atisaṃdhāna): the heart of Kauṭilyan strategy and diplomacy -- Prof Patrick Olivelle, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, 2014-04-23. The leading translator of the Arthashastra argues that outwitting the rival is the core idea of Kautilyan strategy and diplomacy.
• Bargaining and Negotiation Analysis: Lessons from Arthashastra -- Medha Bisht, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, 2014-04-23. Medha Bisht draws lessons for bargaining and negotiation from the Arthashastra at the IDSA International Seminar on Kautilya.
• Kautilya's Political Thought, CEC, 2016-05-04. A university-level lecture on Kautilya’s political thought from the Consortium for Educational Communication.
• Discussion & Launch of two books on Arthashastra, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, 2017-01-20. A panel at IDSA launching two scholarly books on the Arthashastra including Subrata Mitra and Michael Liebig’s intellectual portrait of Kautilya.
• Indian Strategic Culture: Dr. Kajari Kamal | 2017, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, 2017-10-15. Kajari Kamal on the Kautilyan roots of Indian strategic culture at an IDSA seminar in October 2017.
• The Making of Chanakya: The Full Interview with Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi, The Dharma Dispatch, 2019-03-01. The creator of the 1991 Doordarshan serial Chanakya tells Sandeep Balakrishna how the series was researched and made.
• Bharat Ek Khoj | Episode-11 | Chanakya and Chandragupta, Part I, Prasar Bharati Archives, 2020-05-29. Shyam Benegal’s Doordarshan series dramatises Chanakya’s rise with Chandragupta. Satyadev Dubey plays Chanakya.
• Webinar on The #Arthasastra New Directions in Research, Vivekananda International Foundation New Delhi, 2020-08-07. Scholars including Kajari Kamal and Medha Bisht and Saurabh Mishra survey new historical and strategic research on the Arthashastra.
• Book Discussion | Kautilya’s Arthashastra: Philosophy of Strategy, Observer Research Foundation, 2020-10-23. Harsh V Pant chairs a discussion of Medha Bisht’s book on the Arthashastra as a philosophy of strategy with Kajari Kamal.
• चाणक्य Official | Episode 1 | Directed & Acted by Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi, Chanakya_theofficial, 2021-01-17. The first episode of the 1991 Doordarshan serial in which Chandraprakash Dwivedi directs and plays Chanakya. Uploaded by the serial’s own channel.
• Prof. Mark McClish - "The Arthaśāstra and the Statecraft Tradition" - 31 March 2021- Lecture 11, NIAS CSP, 2021-03-31. A full lecture at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bengaluru placing the Arthashastra within India’s wider statecraft tradition.
• Kautilya’s Arthashastra Philosophy of Strategy, Prime Ministers Museum and Library, 2021-04-11. Medha Bisht presents her reading of the Arthashastra as a philosophy of strategy at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.
• Arthashashtra Part 1: साम, दाम, भेद, दंड से परे ft. Kajari Kamal | Puliyabaazi #hindipodcast, पुलियाबाज़ी हिन्दी पॉडकास्ट । Puliyabaazi Podcast, 2021-12-21. A Hindi podcast in which Kajari Kamal corrects common misreadings of Kautilya beyond the familiar sama dana bheda danda.
• Golden Jubilee Lecture: 'Ashoka and Kautilya: Dhamma and Artha...' by Prof. Upinder Singh, School of Social Sciences UoH, 2024-03-18. Historian Upinder Singh compares how Kautilya and Ashoka approached the problem of violence. A University of Hyderabad lecture from March 2024.
• How Kautilya’s Arthshastra highlights the role of ancient India as a global player in trade, ThePrint, 2024-04-09. In a video column Patrick Olivelle reads the Arthashastra alongside new evidence of Indo-Roman trade by sea.
• Kautilya’s ‘Arthashastra’, Manu’s laws—Ancient India's rich literature on jurisprudence, ThePrint, 2024-08-07. Patrick Olivelle on courts and evidence and the burden of proof in the Arthashastra and the law code of Manu.
• Kautilya and Sun Tzu: Ancient Strategy and Contemporary Soft Power | 16 Apr 2025 @ 3PM IST, Institute of Chinese Studies Delhi, 2025-04-16. An ICS Wednesday Seminar setting Kautilya beside Sun Tzu and asking why India has not used the Arthashastra in its soft power as China has used Sun Tzu.
• Chanakya जब बच्चों के साथ खेलते Chandragupta Morya से मिले और राजा बनाने की ठानी- Vivechana, BBC News Hindi, 2025-09-06. Rehan Fazal’s Vivechana in Hindi retells the traditional story of how Chanakya found the young Chandragupta and made him king.
• Indian Diplomacy: Ancient Indian Statecraft, DD India, 2025-11-22. Sreeram Chaulia and Amrita Narlikar discuss Kautilya and dharma and what ancient statecraft means for India’s foreign policy now.

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