2019

Dear Friends, Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) as we all know was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He is best known to…

Dear Friends, James Lovelock (born 26 July 1919) is an independent scientist, environmentalist, and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system. In the 2000s, he proposed a method of climate engineering to restore carbon dioxide-consuming algae. He has written several environmental science…

Dear Friends, Albert Schweitzer (January 14, 1875) was born into an Alsatian family.He obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 1899.Then he worked as a preacher in various capacities up to 1912. Along with church activities, he continued with a distinguished musical career initiated at an early age with piano and organ lessons. He was internationally…

Dear Friends, Rabindranath Tagore ( 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)also known as Gurudev,was a polymath, poet, musician, and artist. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse" of Gitanjali, he…

Dear Friends, Chanakya was an ancient Indian teacher, philosopher, economist, jurist and royal advisor. He is traditionally identified as Kauṭilya or Vishnugupta, who authored the ancient Indian political treatise, the Arthashastra, a text dated to roughly between the 2nd century BCE and the 3rd century CE. As such, he is considered the pioneer in the…

Khalil Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected this title in his lifetime. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and is one of the…

Dear Friends, Stephen William Hawking(8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author. He predicted that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. He was a vigorous supporter of the manyworlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Hawking is known all over the world through his book ‘A Brief History…

Dear Friends, Karl Paul Polanyi (October 25, 1886 – April 23, 1964) was an Austro-Hungarian economic historian and social philosopher. He is known for his opposition to the traditional economic thought and for his book, The Great Transformation, which argued that the emergence of market-based societies was not inevitable. Polanyi is remembered today as the…

Dear Friends, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose  (30 November 1858, 23 November 1937), was a polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist, and an early writer of science fiction from India. He pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics, made significant contributions to plant science, and laid the foundations of experimental science in the Indian…