In this piece, I focus on libraries, looking comprehensively albeit not exhaustively at a broad range and selection of atheneums around the world; each of which may serve a particular social or academic purpose for a specific time and context. Or they could just be a visually inspiring, beautiful, or stunning environment in which

Sparked by the recent inauguration of India’s brand-new parliament building and having visited a number of parliamentary buildings in several countries, I decided to do a compilation and comparison—mostly sourced from information and images from Wikipedia—of various significant old and newer parliament buildings, with an overarching look at the different types of political systems