When Devdutt Pattanaik calls Chanakya a "fantasy," to most people it sounds like provocation, but perhaps it really is overdue truth-telling. This is because Indian historians of repute have time and ...

There is absolutely no historical evidence that a man called Chanakya ever lived during Mauryan times (300 BC) or that he guided Chandragupta Maurya to kingship. What we have is a story based on later ...