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 , this is my consecutively third book review blog because I can't resist myself from reading books now a days . I am heading towards the last year of my undergraduate programme and I have to prepare myself for Post Graduate studies in future so I am just pulling my socks up by reading few accomplished non fictions mostly political and historical and yet one book which caught my attention was " Pax Indica " by Dr. Shashi Tharoor . I loved the concept of this book because I love international relations and I am a frequent reader of international policies , news and worldwide politics all that stuff and this book was eventually based on it , that's why I couldn't cease myself from reading this book.  (Image Source : Image clicked by the blogger itself ) Now , What this book is basically about ? What is the core concept of this book ? I'll clear all the doubts. This book is specifically written on the Indian Foreign Policy worldwide , it's r...