EVEN TODAY HIS NAME IS PRONOUNCED WITH HIGH RESPECT IN POLITICS! BORN AROUND TWENTY-THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO IN INDIA, THIS HISTORIC PROTAGONIST HAS A GLORIOUS AURA AROUND HIM. YET HIS HISTORY IS STILL UNKNOWN. BEING AN ACHARYA OF THE RENOWNED TAKSHASHILA UNIVERSITY AND AN ARDENT NATIONALIST THINKER, HE CREATED A NEW UNIFIED INDIA. HE MADE CHANDRAGUPTA THE FIRST EMPEROR OF THE COUNTRY. HE DESTROYED KING DHANANAND’S TYRANNY AND BY USING SUPREME INTELLIGENT TACTICS MANAGED THE KING’S MINISTER RAKSHAS TO JOIN HIM. THIS IS A COMPLEX STORY OF MANY CHARACTERS WHICH IS BASED ON THE PLAY ‘MUDRARAKSHAS’ BY PLAYWRIGHT VISHAKHADATTA. THE NAMES OF AMATYA RAKSHASA, SENAPATI BHAGURAYAN, KSHAPNAK JIVSIDDHI, QUEEN MURADEVI, YUVRAJ MALAYAKETU, SPY CHIEF SIDDHARTHAKA, KING PARBATAK, CHANDAN DAS MAY SEEM UNKNOWN, BUT ONCE INTRODUCED, THEY APPEAR FAMILIAR.
WHEN THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS IN THE INTEREST OF A NATION, THEN INTELLIGENCE, DECEPTION, DISCRIMINATION, PROPER POLICY PLANNING AND A STRONG SECRET SERVICE BECOME INEVITABLE IN POLITICS. CHANAKYA HAD PROVED THIS IN HIS TIMES. HENCE, THE EXAMPLE OF ARYA CHANAKYA`S CLEVER POLITICS STILL REMAINS RELEVANT IN MODERN POLITICS.
अनासक्ती, अफाट व्यासंग, चाणाक्ष बुद्धिमत्ता, धोरणी राजकारण, इतक्या सर्व सद्गुणांचा समुच्चय एका चाणक्य नावाच्या व्यक्तीत झाला आहे. धूर्त व यशस्वी राजकारणी असून देखील चाणक्याला राजपदाचा मोह नव्हता. राजसत्तेच्या वैभवाला निर्मोही वैराग्याची जोड असणे, हा आदर्श आर्य संस्कृतीचा विचार चाणक्यामुळे दृढ झाला. वर्तमान जगताला आजदेखील या परंपरेची नितांत आवश्यकता भासते आहे, हे अमान्य करून चालणार नाही. सामान्यत: फारसा परिचित नसलेला हा एका महानायकाचा इतिहास कथास्वरूपात या कादंबरीत मांडण्याचा प्रयत्न केला आहे.