There is a view among modern philosophers that there is good envy and bad envy. He says “only lazy and poor people” develop envy, and that “prostitutes envy loyal women, and widows envy married women”. But Chanakya is vindicated when we consider the fact that there is a distinction between private envy and social envy. In social envy, we envy people we do not know personally, we do not envy them as individuals but as a collective. In an election, the potter does not envy potter; they collaborate and attempt to trounce those whom they envy, those who claim they are “shining”.

Source: Mint November 25, 2017 03:11 UTC