There is something almost surreal about some of the images that emerged from Uttar Pradesh during the 2025 Kanwar Yatra. A decorated vehicle moves with a procession of saffron-clad Kanwariyas; loud music fills the road; performers dance from the vehicle; devotees dance along; and smartphones …… Read More ““No Religious Sentiments Were Hurt, So No FIR Was Filed” — The Kanwar Dance Videos and India’s Convenient Offence of Religious Outrage”
The One Who Stayed: A Decade-Long Fight for Justice After the Muzaffarnagar Riots in Uttar Pradesh, India
MUZAFFARNAGAR, UTTAR PRADESH — Nearly ten years after communal violence swept through Muzaffarnagar and neighbouring Shamli in western Uttar Pradesh, a trial court delivered a verdict that brought criminal accountability…
When the Recorded Canada and the Experienced Canada Diverge: Crime, Under-Reporting, Sexual Misconduct, Grooming and the Fragmentation of Justice
September 4, 2026Rohit Sohanlal (Author) The Country the Statistics See and the Country Victims Experience Canada's public discussion of crime is dominated by statistics generated by police and other state…
The Architecture of Polycentric Confinement: Project South, Organized Crime, Multiculturalism and the Erosion of Individual Security in Canada
Author: Special Investigative Desk Abstract Canada’s contemporary constitutional and public order is experiencing an unprecedented structural transformation. While national crime metrics reflect modest post-pandemic pullbacks in aggregate volume, the structural…
When Criminal Justice Fails: Is Canada Becoming a Haven for Sexual Misconduct, Abuse of Power and Thuggery?
From Nordik Spa to the RCMP, the Canadian Armed Forces, universities, schools and other institutions, Canada's experience with sexual misconduct raises a larger question: what happens when the criminal system…
Delhi’s Unauthorized Colonies: How a City Built on Illegality Became a Parallel Urban System
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.…
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.…