BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS

  • MARGIN OF TERROR, KEY PORTER BOOKS, Toronto, 2006 – Second book on the Air India bombing, Margin of Terror, incisively exposed the truth behind Canada’s tragic failure to defuse a terrorist plot and the country’s failure to find final answers to what happened. The book has provided Air India Inquiry lawyers with a road-map of what went wrong. It highlights catastrophic intelligence failures and mistrust between CSIS and RCMP and the inability of national security guardians to work with ease within Canada’s ethnic communities because of a lack of cultural knowledge, linguistic abilities and the shortage of ethnic manpower.
  • THE DEATH OF AIR INDIA FLIGHT 182, W.H. ALLEN, England, 1986 -Death Of Air India Flight 182 was the first book ever written on the subject. Although it was written just eight months after the disaster the facts of the case presented in it remain intact even today. The book provided journalists globally with their first real look into all the facts surrounding the bombing.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, RADIO, TELEVISION

  • 2003, Keynote Speaker at The Vancouver Club Speech centered on dire consequences for the Middle East and Western Allies, and the certainty that the United States would get bogged down in Iraq. Highlighted the potential for involvement by Al Qaeda. The gathering was attended by lawyers, scholars, and businessmen.
  • 2005, Annual Conference of the BC Aviation Safety Council Provided an analysis of Canada’s failure to protect Air India Flight 182 despite the fact that CSIS was following suspects who subsequently blew up the jet. Speech also focused on Canada’s failure to recruit linguists and more ethnic police officers and security service employees. Additional topics included the dismal 20-year police investigation which produced the trial debacle in the Air India case and the acquittal of two suspects.
  • 2006, Langara College Forum on Domestic Violence in the Indo-Canadian Community. Topics included media coverage of recent murders of Indo-Canadian women, cultural aspects which would cause this to happen, and advised younger generation that was part of the audience to work diligently to strive for a top-class education so that their lives can be better than those of women who face domestic abuse and violence including murder.

Radio, Television Appearances – Front Page Challenge, numerous CBC Television shows, CTV Television, ABC News Affiliate Station in Los Angeles, Fanny Keefer show on Rogers, The Standard, TV stations in India, CKNW Radio, Variety of CBC Radio shows including Sounds Like Canada and As it Happens. Regular guest on local TV stations to talk about the failure of U.S. intervention in Iraq and the significant alienation of the Islamic world because of a perception that the war on terror is a disguised attack on Islam.

LANGUAGES
Multiple European, African and Indian languages