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...

Well , I can confidently say that my summer holidays went quite productive because the books which I opted to read and especially non fictional were exhilarating and I was poured with great facts and knowledge which were unclear to me and helped me to understand better about some of the few ideologies and incidents which are very essential to understand today because the facts are portrayed in a very distorted manner especially about the deeds and misdeeds of Indian freedom struggle and post independence era.  (Image Source : The one who is writing the blog ! Thanks me later 😉) Thanks to one and only Dr. Shashi Tharoor and being a Delhi University undergraduate student it's my honor to study one of my profound alumni. This summer holidays I decided to read one of his book " Nehru - The Invention of India " 2018 edition and honestly I was stunned after reading this book because this book nourished my knowledge very well to understand the better image ...