Saawarni's Blog

 Being a Political Science student sometimes challenges your thoughts about contemporary world especially when you thorough study the western political thoughts. One of the stalwarts among western political thinkers – Plato, an ancient Greek philosopher and regarded as the first western political thinker. A disciple of Socrates who laid the foundation of this whole philosophical mania. He embedded his ideas in one of his most novelistic work – Republic. There’re certain philosophies on which Plato talked about among which a concept of an “Ideal State” or “Just State” arose. He challenged those concepts ages ago but we are still in 21 st century struggling for the proper definition and execution for an ideal state. Although in many nation state powers are snatched forcefully with show of force or popular support, those are anarchic states. In context of democracy failure, he reasoned it that its due to people are not equipped with proper education to select the best ruler. For th...

Month of June and July are the months of holidays and relaxing for school and college students because these are the hottest months of the year and we are privileged with "summer vacations" in these months . Well I am an undergraduate student in Delhi University , so I thought to utilize my holidays with reading some interesting books rather than opting for internships in such scorching heat by sitting at home under the AC while having snacks . It sounds so "Lethargic" .... LOL .  (Image Source : The one who is writing the blog ! Thanks me later 😉) But eventually it turned very fruitful . This was so because , the list of books I decided to read were all non fictional and all the books were given to me by my dad and one of them was " Why I am a Liberal " by Sagarika Ghose . I am just done with this book and I am totally stunned by this book . Hats off to her !!🙆   (Image Source : Pixbay ) Now , Lets talk about the book ...