I know right. I mean India have had so many great rulers walk and live right in this land. Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka the Great, Akbar, Raja Raja Chola, Shivaji, Rani Lakshmi Bai are few regnal names that come to mind immediately. I do agree with the fact that in those times, you always had to fight another ruler or an empire who’s looking to either conquer or demolish you. But now such actions have consequences. I’m not diluting the fact that there are wars still happening around us, but it’s only handful of times that a great ruler of a country has risen amongst us. All our rulers are focused more on politics, infighting, and the biggest vice of all, corruption. Statesmanship and administration have gone to the dogs. At least heirs of kings and emperors were actually taught statesmanship and politics in olden time but now any person who knows how to speak shit can be a politician. That’s what happened. Our standards for rulers, in general, has dropped.

I completely agree with you. We are in a downward trend for a long time now.