Reliving Age-old Wisdom in the Age of AI
Saurabh Kumar
STRATEGIC CHOICES, ETHICAL DILEMMAS: STORIES FROM THE MAHABHARATA by By Aruna Narlikar, Amitabh Mattoo and Amrita Narlikar Vintage Books, Penguin/Random House, 2023, 184 pp., INR 399.00
May 2024, volume 48, No 5

The Ramayana and the Mahabharata are not just two great epics but also great treasures of our civilizational heritage that have inspired generations over many centuries. Strategic Choices, Ethical Dilemmas: Stories from the Mahabharata explains the relevance of that abiding intelligence in the age of Artificial Intelligence.
The authors have skillfully employed the storytelling technique to elucidate lessons relevant to contemporary challenges,drawing from various incidents narrated in the Mahabharata. Each chapter of this book has been divided into three sections. The first section of a chapter narrates an inspiring incident from the Mahabharata; the second section describes the lessons learnt from that incident for a real-life question, and the third section explains its utility for solving challenges of governance and foreign policy issues.

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