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Exactly one hundred years ago, Max Weber published what curiously still remains one of the few ruminations that touch on the subject Politics as a Vocation. Though published in July 1919, the lecture was delivered in January to Free Students Union at the University of Munich, against the backdrop of immense political upheaval Germany's defeat in World War I, the spectre of Bolshevism, political assassinations and deep scepticism about parliamentary democracy. This was a companion piece to Weber's famous essay, 'Science as a Vocation'. Both essays had a common thread What does it mean to invest a vocation with meaning in an age characterised by disenchantment and rationalisation? What does it mean to take "politics" or science both as a profession and as something deeper, a calling? What ethical commitments and character traits do they draw upon?