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A common refrain of Dhritarashtra was to bemoan the vicissitudes of fate, the meaningless of karma, and the supremacy of destiny. It was perhaps hi...

Remember what Vidura said towards the end of the previous chapter, that someone who incites his enemy "cannot presume to be secure, only because he...

Vidura likens the Kouravas to the forest and the Pandavas to the tigers that reside in the forest. His injunction to the king is to not cut down th...

So far we have covered three chapters of Vidura Niti - 254 of 541 shlokas - or a little less than half of Vidura Niti, which is entirely contained ...

Vidura ended the previous chapter by telling the king that Yudhishthira was fit to rule, that he had suffered much on account of his 'compassion an...

The first chapter of Vidura Niti ended with Vidura advising Dhritarashtra to do the right thing and hand over the Pandava's "rightful kingdom" to t...

I ended the third piece on Vidura Niti with listing the six who live off six others. Let's move to the seven. Yes, I am talking about seven vices t...

Number play - that's where I ended the second article on Vidura Niti. Vidura spoke to Dhritarashtra about using the one - intelligence - to differe...

Who is stupid? Vidura explains the characteristics of stupid. Read in this second episode of Vidura Niti by author Abhinav Agarwal.

Vidura is one of the wisest characters of the great epic Mahabharata. Vidura Niti is usually the term used for Vidura's message to Dhritarashtra just before the start of the Kurukshetra war between Kaurava and Pandava.

Here author Abhinav Agarwal presents those words of wisdom in simple blog form.