About
Global Indian Times (GIT) was launched in March 2020, though a beta version began in 2019. It offers unique insights into key issues of interest to Indians around the globe: in education, management, business, politics, technology, science, medicine, films, books, arts and more.
The guiding principles are the same as the vision for a free India, expressed by Rabindranath Tagore in his 1910 poem Gitanjali:
Where The Mind Is Without Fear
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
TEAM
Ignatius Chithelen, CFA,
publisher, is manager of Banyan Tree Capital, New York. Earlier he was an analyst and fund manager at First Eagle (SoGen) funds. A former reporter at Forbes, his essay on Indian Entrepreneurs is in both editions of The Oxford University Press Companion to Economics in India. He is the author of Passage from India to America and Six Degrees of Education. He has written for The New York Times, Barrons & other publications. He is the founder of Silley Circuits, a New York area business network.
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Visakh Menon
Visakh Menon, design, teaches graphic design at the City College of Technology - CUNY. He got his M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. He also creates art work spanning video, drawing, and media arts at his studio in Queens, New York. His work is in private collections and shown in several galleries.
Romar Correa
Romar Correa was the Reserve Bank of India professor of monetary economics at Bombay University from 1996 till his retirement in 2016. Author or co-author of over 70 research articles and winner of numerous academic prizes, he was a visiting fellow at the National University of Singapore and French government post-doctoral scholar. Romar got his PhD and MA from Bombay University and a BA from Elphinstone College, Mumbai.
EDITORIAL ADVISORS
Alby Anand Kurian is founder of Emphasis, a marketing consultancy. His book, The Peddler of Soaps, was a best-seller in India.
Mary Leer, graduate school faculty, Bank Street College, New York.
Mukul Pandya, former editor-in-chief, Knowledge@Wharton, executive director, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
CONTRIBUTORS
John Gracias
John Gracias, cartoons
“I don’t believe in the superstitious nonsense of any of the pseudo sciences being propagated by religious zealots,” says John Gracias.
He is inspired by the works of Gary Larson, Michael Lunig, Kliban, Ed Mclachlan, and also the underground comic artists like Crumb, Gilbert Shelton and Art Spiegelman.
Based in Bangalore, John retired as a ship captain for a Kuwaiti company which transports live sheep and cattle from Australia to the Middle East.
Alby Anand Kurian
Alby Anand Kurian leads the Doctorate of Business Administration programme at the Management Development Institute of Singapore. A marketing strategist, he founded Emphasis, a Mumbai-based marketing consultancy. He has worked with Procter & Gamble, Nestlé, Unilever and other multi-nationals. Kurian’s concept, Conflict as a Marketing Tool, was published by Knowledge@Wharton. He has addressed academics, management professionals and bureaucrats on ‘What’s Next for China’ at Hangzhou, China. His book, The Peddler of Soaps, was a best-seller in India.
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