Delhi’s unauthorized colonies are one of the capital’s most striking contradictions. They are, by definition, developments that came up without the approvals required under the city’s planning and building laws. Yet millions of people live in them, homes have been bought and sold for decades, …… Read More “Delhi’s Unauthorized Colonies: How a City Built on Illegality Became a Parallel Urban System”
Thirty Years of Growth: India and China Pulled Ahead, While Germany and Canada Lost Ground to the United States
Over the past three decades, the economic trajectories of India, China, Germany, Canada, and the United States have diverged sharply. China delivered the fastest sustained real-growth performance of the five,…
Study Permit Crackdown: India Faces Far Higher Refusal Rates in the U.S. and Canada Than China and Many Other Countries
The era of almost automatic growth in international student migration to North America is changing rapidly. In both the United States and Canada, governments have tightened student-visa and study-permit systems…
H-1B Abuse, Indian IT “Body Shops,” and the Shift Toward Higher-Wage Workers in America
The H-1B visa is a lawful U.S. immigration program intended to allow employers to hire foreign nationals for specialty occupations requiring highly specialized knowledge and a bachelor's degree or equivalent.…
Failed Radical Assimilation to Multicultural Canada: Residential Schools, State Power, Missing Children, Compensation, and the Unfinished Problem of Assimilation
Taking Away What Was Most Precious to Them: Their Children — And Not Returning Them Safely Canada's modern national identity is strongly associated with multiculturalism. Its population includes people from…
Gary Webb, the Crack Epidemic and the Question of Responsibility
From South Central Los Angeles in the 1980s to Los Angeles Today Gary Webb's name remains attached to one of the most consequential and contested episodes in American investigative journalism.…
Sharia, Parallel Justice and Cult-Like Communities: When Religious Authority Challenges the Modern State
How religious tribunals, social enclaves, child marriage, authoritarian movements and cult-like organizations test the limits of multiculturalism and the rule of law. Religious communities have always developed rules governing marriage,…
Was Prophet Muhammad a Paedophile? Historical Marriage, Other Religious Traditions, and the Evolution of Consent — What Critics of Islam Say and What History Shows
The accusation that the Prophet Muhammad was a “paedophile” usually rests on a familiar historical claim: that Aisha was married to Muhammad at six and that the marriage was consummated…
Sohanlal v. RockIT et al. & Subsequent Proceedings: Institutional Gatekeeping, Rule 2.1 Due Process Violations, and Digital Registry Breakdown in Small Claims and Civil Courts in Toronto
Rohit Sohanlal (Author) Case Record & Procedural Update (August 2026): This publication consists of two interconnected parts. Part I reproduces the original record of the Small Claims Court proceeding (Court…