Bobby Ghosh
Bobby Ghosh
Aparisim "Bobby" Ghosh is a journalist and the managing editor of the business news website Quartz. He was previously TIME Magazine's World Editor. An Indian national, he was the first non-American to be named World Editor in TIME's more than 80 years. He has previously been TIME's Baghdad bureau chief, and one of the longest-serving correspondents in Iraq. He has written stories from other conflict areas, like Palestine and Kashmir. He has also worked for Time Asia and Time Europe...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionEditor
CountryIndia
On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to himself as satellite TV brings to the leafy boulevards of Abbottabad the somber images of New Yorkers commemorating those who perished in the Twin Towers.
To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.
Even before I joined journalism, I knew that this is what I wanted to do. Tintin was an early inspiration.
'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.
There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring a different idea to the table when I say, 'Guys, I come from India. I'm more optimistic coming from where I'm coming.'