S. Akhtar Ehtisham

S. Akhtar Ehtisham was born in India in 1939 and in 1951, when he was in the ninth grade, moved to the newly-formed Pakistan. There he completed his studies including university and medical school. Postgraduate work took him to the UK in 1965, then to Nova Scotia, and then to Bath, New York. In this work he contrasts health standards, economic well-being, race relations, and the political atmosphere on three continents during the socially-conscious 1960s and later under bare-knuckle capitalism. In the 1980s he returned to Pakistan to repay his debt to his country, building a hospital and encouraging international contacts to support professional development in the medical field. He also became involved in the international anti-nuclear war movement. Anarchic conditions in Karachi drove him back to Bath, New York by 1991. He remains active in Indian–Pakistani physicians’ groups, human rights, and peace organizations.