Thread by @CursedRaitaTake

Power of that analogy is that chanakya as an icon can be used to justify and rationalize almost anything under the excuse of pragmatism.

Because hinduism has been reduced to mere iconography alone. The simple minded people follow that iconography alone, not any ideals. And chanakya is the icon of "Well intentioned pragmatism" in popular hindu discourse.

To make matters worse, a lot of elite hindus are aware of this vulnerability of common hindus and they exploit it to the fullest for their political or commercial ends.
They appeal to chanakyan philosophy in order to justify any kind of unscrupulous behavior.

Since good faith argumentation has failed with these people, only way to counter their icon is to pit it against another icon. An icon from hindu itihaas. Someone who can become the icon of "bad intention pragmatism" or mendacity to counter the analogy of "good faith pragmatism".

I think there's a Shakuni among us

There is a fundamental problem to the line of thinking in given snippet:
you can't apply a strategy of personal communication to public communication.

The tactic that is being suggesting above works if and only if you say one thing to one party and another thing to another party. And neither of the two finds out what you have been saying to the other.

In age of mass communication like ours, where almost everyone has access to put his ideas out for entire public to see, both your friends and enemy have equal access to your opinions.

Many hindus who think they are going to manipulate their enemy by propagating their own custom-crafted narrative, unknowingly get caught in their own trap.

Hindus have this tendency of thinking themselves as "noble liars" who push their lies in the marketplace of ideas for the greater good of hindu community.

Turns out that the enemy of hindus maintain their skepticism and never trust a word of your narrative say while your friends who trusted you and were too innocent to ever get the complex charade of yours unwittingly fall for your lies hook, line and sinker.

You fancy yourself as a chanakya to your enemies but end up becoming a shakuni to your friends.

Often 5D chess enthusiasts quote Islamic/judaic scriptures and ask, "This strategy seems to work for them! why can't we do the same?" Such overconfident midwits do not understand that islam only permits taqqiya when it's legit your life at risk.++