Film journalist Bhawana Somaaya’s tribute to Karachi, a city like no other.

‘When the family is together, nothing is difficult.’ This is the underlying theme of Bollywood film journalist Bhawana Somaaya’s heart rending memoir ‘Farewell Karachi.’  I first came across this book through an Instagram post and I’m not embarrassed to admit that the blurbs on the front cover by Hrithik Roshan, Shobhaa De and Karan Johar

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The Phoney Peace

India’s true enemy is not Pakistan: it is hubris, the arrogance of a born-again bully. India emerged as a unified nation-state in 1947, the People’s Republic of China two years later. Both boast a heritage that is more than 5,000 years old. Yet each has spent the past seven decades struggling to resolve unfinished business

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Trojan Traditions

‘Jo ayega Nadaun, kon jaeyga Nadaun?’ This 19th century aphorism described the allure of the hill station of Nadaun, now in India’s Himachal Pradesh. In 1947, India got the Punjab Hill states. Pakistan received the equally irresistible scenery of Gilgit-Baltistan. Any disappointment at leaving Hunza is compensated by a cloudless view of Rakaposhi on the

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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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