<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=268456.msg13300377#msg13300377">Quote from: LordLuck on 25-06-2017, 15:50:09</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I actually do - my research was about Renaissance Political Theory, on Machiavelli. <br/><br/>It certainly was a very nice experience, the defense was also less tough than I thought it would be. Again, thanks for all the good wishes and the congratulations, guys. You are all great.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Great (and totally irrelevant) story about Machiavelli. Being of Indian descent I learned lots of stuff that most of my peers didn't and way back as an undergrad, where I was studying Political Science, among other things, my favorite professor had assigned The Prince, beginning about a month or two worth of analysis during which time I brought up Chankya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanakya) and described his (legendary) history and his work which was very similar to The Prince. That led to this great exchange:<br/><br/>Prof: "So, this Chankya sounds like the Indian Machiavelli."<br/>Me: "Well, he was around about two thousand years<em>before</em>Machiavelli, so I think it would be better to call Machiavelli the Italian Chankya."<br/><br/>That got a big laugh and I've been a devoted student of both ever since. Nothing to do with anything but I just thought I'd share. :P