Guest Columns

Parts of the Bible began to be published in Hindustani in 1811. The complete Hindi Bible was printed in 1843. It was only after the Bible had been published the Hindi, that the first Hindu who ever wrote in Hindi, Bharatendu Harishchandra, was born – in 1850. He began his literary activities by founding the […]

(Presentation at the Boston Global Forum Conference on the Boston Finance Accord for AI Governance 24/7, Loeb House, Harvard University, April 22, 2025) by Kamal Malhotra While India ranks in the global top five on Stanford University’s AI Vibrancy Index experts agree that India is many years behind the two global leaders, China and the USA. The Government

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

“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

Last week I discovered my mother’s notebooks. My mother died on 15 January. Sorting through her things just recently I discovered a bunch of notepads and diaries. The notebooks, frayed at the edges and brown with age, contain hand-written personal jottings and musings. But mostly they contain long quotes from a range of authors and

I’m not sure how many people outside India know of Subhas Chandra Bose, a major leader of this country’s independence movement who, after escaping from The British Raj at the onset of WWII, set up the Provisional Government of Free India as well as the India National Army (INA) in the shadow of Japan. He

Talking about one’s own work can be challenging, and it is easier to share my thoughts in a Q&A format. I hope you will find the few minutes needed to explore the information about a book that I wrote over the span of ten years. What led you to start composing the very first poem

The young cricketer Yashasvi Jaiswal articulated an important insight about our country at the end of the third Test against England, where he scored his second double-century at the tender age of 22. “In India, when you grow up, you work really hard for each and every thing,” he said when asked about his approach

This past year, the ascent of Rishi Sunak—a brown-skinned, cow-worshipping Indian—as prime minister of the UK has been enthusiastically celebrated. More strikingly, it serves as another reminder of the prominence of the Indian diaspora in the western world. This has been evident in the private sector, where executives born and raised in India have been