Today news papers are all agog with several scandals in politics. The political personalities of prominences and authority are found involved in the acts moral depravity. Such a trend, unfortunate enough no doubt, is confined to know or people. As news paper reports amply demonstrate, this is universal almost. The president of a big western democracy was impeached on serious charges of given false evidence, distorting records and indulging in sexual immorality. Again another president no doubt of an Asiatic developing country, was convicted for corruption and the embezzlement of state funds. The prime minister of another democratic country was accused of bribery of political advantages and of alliance with financial cheating. The chief minister of large Indian state was sent to prison on the serious charges of misappropriations and practice.
Similar reports, either proved or rumored, relating to the criminal offenses of important political leaders are galore in the news all over the world.
Such a situation is definitely not pleasant, in fact whether sinister and revel a growing degeneration in the moral order of the present day political world. The absence of morality in politics seems an undeniable reality today.
BUT that was not previous thought of politics and political men. Kings and princes, ministers and generals were then held in a very high esteemed and even looked upon as the models of living, and general masses were imbued with their deeds and advise to follow their foot steps. That is why ancient literature is a rich store house of the tales of great kings and queens and heroes. The Indian epics as also thee Greek contain the hallowed life stories and the heroic feats of the princes of might and nobility, Arjun and his brother ( in the Mahabharata ), Achillies and Ulysses in Homer, Aenies in virgil and many more are the great poets imitations of grand and political heads and princes. If literature is deemed as nothing else then the imitation of life, the representation of such noble, morally inspired personalities must be indicative of the presence of morality in the political behavior and character of the ancient world.
