Cherian Samuel

After earning his PhD in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park, Cherian Samuel joined the World Bank Group as an Evaluator, retiring from the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) in 2021. He is based in Washington DC, and now continues contributing to the world as an editor and writer.

Did British Rule Damage or Help India’s Economy?

Tirthankar Roy discusses his research on British rule in India, Kerala’s economic miracle, and relying on evidence, not ideology, for credible analysis. A Global Indian Times Interview By Cherian Samuel* and Ignatius Chithelen**   Why is Kerala showing economic growth while most other states in India face stagnancy? This is the focus of Kerala, 1956 to the Present […]

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T. K. Mathew: An Exceptional Life of Service and Significance

“Be content with what you have, but be discontent with what you can for others”. Mr. T.K. Mathew (TK), the well-known Indian Social Entrepreneurship Pioneer, passed away in March 2025, at the age of 89. TK served India’s poor and marginalized exceptionally well for over sixty years. The small and unpromising beginning of his efforts

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Clooney Memoir review by Cherian Samuel

ISBN: 9780567710253 (pp. 208); T&T Clark (Bloomsbury Publishing) “Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story” (2024) Memoir of Francis X. Clooney, S.J. “Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story” is the extraordinary memoir of Francis X. Clooney, S.J., the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, Harvard Divinity School,

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