Financing Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Government 24/7: India and the Global South

(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

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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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Cool Escapes

Mountains measure time in millennia. The sight of Nanga Parbat’s peak from the plane as we neared Gilgit reminded me that PIA’s aircraft and I had grown older: the Himalayas had not. On an earlier trip to the northern areas years ago, I had missed a detour to Fairy Meadows. Guidebooks persuaded me that what

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‘Kiss my ring’

WHICH school serves its country better — a single-sex school or a co-educational one? There are advocates for both. The most vociferous are the alumni of elite mono-sex institutions, amongst them Pakistan’s 139-year-old Aitchison College, Lahore, and India’s 89-year-old Doon School, Dehradun. Almost since their foundation, both have been haunted by the issue of gender

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NETHER REGIONS

History has been in love with Lahore since forever. It was not its only admirer. The Mughals remained enamoured of it. Akbar made the capital of his kingdom for fourteen years, from 1584 to 1598. Jahangir chose to be buried within sight of it. Shah Jahan embellished its fort. Aurangzeb commissioned a magnificent mosque opposite

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