Arya Chanakya Perhaps the pioneering prime bureaucrat-scholar. The thinker who realized the dangers of foreign invasion. He tried to awaken a corrupt, exploitative, anti-people and inefficient regime. When the power-drunk, corrupt regime refused to wake up, he sacrificed his career, went into the wilderness, and organized and inspired the young generation from the commonest of the common strata of society. He influenced the political revolution that unified India and repulsed foreign invasion. Having achieved all this, he renounced all positions of power and wrote the eternal treatise Artha Shastra Chanakya is the name of the classic Indian role model of doing anything and everything for the country-the cosmos-and nothing for the narrow self.