Montesquieu. After Jacques-Antoine Dassier, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Few thinkers have had as much impact on the legal and political fields as the famous French political philosopher Montesquieu. Montesquieu’s writings have influenced constitutions...
Stonehenge. Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay Growing up anywhere around the world, I believe we have all heard of Stonehenge in some way or the other, either in school or through basic general...
Jiddu Krishnamurti. Albert Witzel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. India is a land not short of its own eminent philosophers and spiritual and religious teachers. In fact, I will even go as far as...
Archimedes. Domenico Fetti, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Archimedes Biography and Legacy We have all come across the name Archimedes in our schooling years. I believe (and I may be wrong) that in all...
Claude Monet. Image by WikiImages from Pixabay Claude Monet Biography and Legacy Claude Monet was a French artist who was one of the founders of Impressionism and one of the most influential artists of...
Vasco da Gama. National Museum of Ancient Art, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Vasco da Gama Biography and Legacy Although I am not sure about the rest of the world, most Indians have certainly...
Amerigo Vespucci. Image by WikimediaImages from Pixabay Amerigo Vespucci Biography and Legacy Every child across the world grew up learning about the great Christopher Columbus, the renowned Italian explorer who discovered the Americas in...
Portrait of Diego Rivera by Amedeo Modigliani. Amedeo Modigliani, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Diego Rivera Biography and Legacy Diego Rivera was an influential Mexican artist and a pioneer of the mural movement in...
The Louvre Stele in Louvre Museum, Paris. Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Code of Hammurabi Many have probably heard about the Code of Hammurabi in either their history or law...
Image by Darwin Laganzon from Pixabay History of Human Rights My last two essays addressed the subjects of human rights and the history of human rights from ancient times to the middle ages. In...